Words matter. These are the best Mike Farrell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life – by definition – position, and I didn’t understand why we did it.
It’s mostly the financial chicanery that’s going on. People are saying ‘What kind of trust can we put in this market?’
What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.
I am often stunned and charmed by the simple brilliance of what children say. But you have to be willing to listen.
People who know me know that I’m always interested in an honest, civil exchange of views, and I’m not some Hollywood liberal know-nothing.
People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there’s simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren’t apples.
I can think of some things that would be fun, but I’m living my dreams.
The networks are business-oriented cowards.
People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
I wanted to be an actor from the time I was a kid.
No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, ‘I was against the death penalty,’ because they replaced ‘soft on communism’ with ‘soft on crime.’ You just see the horror of this thing.
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
‘M*A*S*H,’ to me, was about something. It had value beyond the laughs.
It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.
