Ted Shackelford Quotes

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

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

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

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

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

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

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

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

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was in a Paris for four or five days and I couldn't believe the reaction I got there. It was just bizarre; people recognizing me left and right.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

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

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

If you don't like something about yourself change it. If you can't change it accept it.