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" I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day. "
Larry Hagman
Wonderful
Day
Admire
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" 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. "
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Air
Loved
Air Force
" 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. "
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Going
Down
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Me
People
" Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there? "
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Learn
Too Much
Know
" 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. "
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Lucky
Time
Three
" I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34. "
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Years
Age
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" After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. "
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Only
You
Years
" I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms. "
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Same
Secret
" I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it! "
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Lucky
Success
Born
" 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. "
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Fun
Rest
Money
" 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. "
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Great
America
Me
" My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. "
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Definition
Car
Politician
" There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them. "
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" 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
" Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals. "
Larry Hagman
Funny
Comedy
Hard Work
" 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
" Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world. "
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Girl
Beautiful
World
" I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it. "
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Television
Sports
Lot
" I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it. "
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You
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" 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. "
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Motto
Start
Good
" 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 think JR would make a better President than the one we have now. "
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Now
President
" Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time. "
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Stop
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" 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. "
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Cancer
Know
New
" Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets. "
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Me
Well
Humble
" 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
" 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. "
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Watch
Like
News
" I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par. "
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Admit
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