James MacArthur Quotes

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

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.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

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, I was interested in growth stocks.

I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

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 their actors.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

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 her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.

I got into the acting business very young.

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

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 versus the bad guys.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.

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 why a show fails.

You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.