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Larry Hagman
September 21, 1931 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actor
Subcategory: American Actor

Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it you can't give up the fight.

   

I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

   

I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

   

I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.

   

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

   

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

   

You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

   

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

   

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

   

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

   

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

   

I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

   

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

   

No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.

   

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

   

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

   

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

   

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

   

I could never understand why anybody would take LSD for recreation. It's like, I think I'm going to take out my appendix. That would be nice this weekend.

   

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

   

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