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" I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms. "
Larry Hagman
Years
Same
Secret
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" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Sad
Wife
God
" 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.' "
Larry Hagman
Brother
Family
Father
" There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30. "
Larry Hagman
Lucky
Time
Three
" If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball. "
Larry Hagman
Ball
Military
Out
" I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet. "
Larry Hagman
Versed
Internet
Well
" I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved. "
Larry Hagman
Air
Loved
Air Force
" Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets. "
Larry Hagman
Me
Well
Humble
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Watch
Like
News
" After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. "
Larry Hagman
Only
You
Years
" I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it. "
Larry Hagman
Television
Sports
Lot
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Water
Live
Peace
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
End
Started
Show
" I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it! "
Larry Hagman
Lucky
Success
Born
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Time
Television
See
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
You
Alone
Good
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Back
Country
You
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Great
America
Me
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Know
You
Weird
" I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them. "
Larry Hagman
Disguise
Hats
Hide
" Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world. "
Larry Hagman
Girl
Beautiful
World
" Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore. "
Larry Hagman
Me
Never
Now
" Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored. "
Larry Hagman
Motorcycle
Bored
Fish
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Fun
Rest
Money
" It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan. "
Larry Hagman
Motto
Start
Good
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Kid
Travel
Texas
" My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. "
Larry Hagman
Definition
Car
Politician
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
King
Me
People
" 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. "
Larry Hagman
Cancer
Know
New
" There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them. "
Larry Hagman
Life
Things
Patience
" Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals. "
Larry Hagman
Funny
Comedy
Hard Work