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" The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft. "
Steve Kanaly
Craft
You
Years
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" 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. "
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Imagination
" I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers. "
Steve Kanaly
See
You
Phone Call
" 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. "
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" I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time. "
Steve Kanaly
Time
Play
Opportunity
" I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films. "
Steve Kanaly
Person
Others
Old
" We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time. "
Steve Kanaly
Food
Drive
Me
" I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times. "
Steve Kanaly
Family
Been
England
" One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago. "
Steve Kanaly
Good
Together
Art
" If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big. "
Steve Kanaly
You
Long
Stay
" Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them. "
Steve Kanaly
People
Pride
Think
" Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved. "
Steve Kanaly
Problems
Once
Solved
" I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role. "
Steve Kanaly
About
Role
Ray
" I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers. "
Steve Kanaly
Well
Old
Real
" 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. "
Steve Kanaly
Loved
Doing
Fun
" 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. "
Steve Kanaly
Financial
Mistakes
Problems
" My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America. "
Steve Kanaly
America
Here
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