27 Quotes by Steve Kanaly

None of use besides Larry had done a television show that had stayed on the air for more than a few weeks, so Larry was prepared.

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

We all did a hint of a Western accent, everybody's was a little different, mine was not supposed to be Texas, so I kind of did a Colorado accent.

Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.

A shooting background I have in my life is a sports shooting, shooting clay targets, and field shooting. I'm also a firearms safety instructor.

Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved.

It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we all understood how fortunate we were to be in that place, to have achieved that success worldwide.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.