114 Quotes by Larry Hagman

People who are living donors who give kidneys. You can't give a heart and you can't give a liver, but you can sure give a lung - well, kidneys, anyhow. And that's where the main part of this whole thing is - one out of every eight people, I believe, is going to have some kind of kidney problem during their lifetime.

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

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

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 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.

My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says, “Don’t worry, Be Happy, Feel Good.” When you see that first thing, and you reflect on it, the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.

All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It’s a pretty – I don’t smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago.

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.