Ted Shackelford

What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for…

— Ted Shackelford

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I…

— Ted Shackelford

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

— Ted Shackelford

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was…

— Ted Shackelford

I was in a Paris for four or five days and I couldn't believe the reaction I got there. It was just…

— Ted Shackelford

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

— Ted Shackelford

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

— Ted Shackelford

My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

— Ted Shackelford

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out…

— Ted Shackelford

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

— Ted Shackelford

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

— Ted Shackelford

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

— Ted Shackelford

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

— Ted Shackelford

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

— Ted Shackelford

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the…

— Ted Shackelford

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

— Ted Shackelford

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

— Ted Shackelford

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

— Ted Shackelford

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

— Ted Shackelford

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

— Ted Shackelford

Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

— Ted Shackelford

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

— Ted Shackelford

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

— Ted Shackelford

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

— Ted Shackelford

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

— Ted Shackelford