Quotes by Larry Hagman

"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 have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them."

"Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time."

"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 not well versed on the verbiage of the internet."

"Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun."

"Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored."

"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."

"Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world."

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

"Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake."

"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."

"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 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.'"

"I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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