42 Quotes by Patrick Duffy

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

I learned to travel, then I travelled to learn.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.