James MacArthur Quotes

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• My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.
• Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks…
• I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse,…
• If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that…
• Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain…
• When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of…
• And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
• Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.
• But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
• For years I have played the twenty-something lover.
• Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.
• I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.
• I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.
• I got into the acting business very young.
• I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.
• It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
• Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
• The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.
• Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
• We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys…

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