Larry Dallas Quotes

#1. Sorry, I said. But I've been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can't wear anything good, in case I develop style.

Simon R. Green

#2. 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

#3. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is thicker than both.

Larry Hagman

#4. When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

Larry Hagman

#5. I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

Amy Waldman

#6. Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.

Stever Robbins

#8. 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.

Larry Hagman

#9. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

A.W. Tozer

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

Larry Hagman

#11. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Solon

#12. 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.

Larry Hagman

#13. People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

Paula Hawkins

#14. You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

Donald Davis

#17. 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.

Larry Hagman

#18. It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.

Paul David Tripp

#19. Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service.

John Sununu

#20. It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

Laurence Fishburne

#21. 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

#22. Regrets are born in old age, never in youth.

Beem Weeks

#23. We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

Larry Hagman

#24. Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

Voltaire