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

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.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

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!

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

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

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.

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.

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

A man who has ceased to learn ought not to wander around loose in these dangerous times

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.