James MacArthur quotes
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“My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- James MacArthur -
“They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.”
-- James MacArthur -
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“I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.”
-- James MacArthur -
“Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.”
-- James MacArthur -
“In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.”
-- James MacArthur -
“I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.”
-- James MacArthur -
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“It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.”
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“Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.”
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“The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.”
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“Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.”
-- James MacArthur -
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“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.”
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“Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.”
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“A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.”
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“Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.”
-- James MacArthur -
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“You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.”
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“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!”
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“I got into the acting business very young.”
-- James MacArthur -
“I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.”
-- James MacArthur -
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“My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.”
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“Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- James MacArthur -
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.”
-- James MacArthur -
“Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.”
-- James MacArthur -
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“But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.”
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“For years I have played the twenty-something lover.”
-- James MacArthur -
“I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.”
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“Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.”
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