Top 35 Larry Hagman Quotes

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco – oh my god.

Actors can’t retire. What would they do?

I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

As J.R. I could get away with anything – bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new ‘Dallas’ series.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

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.

I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that’s what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

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.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

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.

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.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they’re usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they’ll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

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 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.

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 been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

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.

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I’m the only guy with a hat. It’s amazing.

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.

I’m not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80’s, I don’t think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

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’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.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

I’m happy to be here. I’m happy to be anywhere. I’m not kidding.

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.

I don’t watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that’s it.

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I’m totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of ‘Dallas.’

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?