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I drank my liver out.
Actors can't retire. What would they do?
We've got to find another way of producing energy.
I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.
I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
Marijuana you can give up, I've given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.
On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep.
A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.
Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?
When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.
At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.
I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.
Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.
I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.