Larry Hagman Quotes (35 Quotes)


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

    I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

    I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

    I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

    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.


    I could never understand why anybody would take LSD for recreation. It's like, I think I'm going to take out my appendix. That would be nice this weekend.

    I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

    I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

    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.

    I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

    Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

    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.

    Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

    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.

    Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it you can't give up the fight.

    She was the rock of Dallas. She was just a really nice woman and a wonderful actress. She was kind of the glue that held the whole thing together.

    I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

    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.

    Communism has kind of been dead for a few years now. They are in the mind set of that's where their living, back in the Vietnam war I guess.

    It was nice to go up there and see Carroll had a full house. He would have enjoyed that. He was a nice guy, and a wonderful friend for 42 years.

    I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

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

    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 have just paid an enormous amount of money for a DELL laptop and its a like giving somebody a 747. I can barely get on the internet to get my mail.

    Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

    Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

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

    My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

    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.

    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.

    But anyhow my stance is for the troops and I support all our children we send over there but I don't respect people who send them, simple as that.

    They probably thought that that was the (astronauts') headquarters, ... I don't think it would have made any difference if it was in Calcutta.

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

    LSD was such a profound experience in my life that it changed my pattern of life and my way of thinking and I could not exclude it.

    I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.


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