 But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach. |
| I learn the whole script before I show up. |
| I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s. |
| I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again. |
| I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry. |
| Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent. |
| The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts. |
| I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role. |
| I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. |
| Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs. |
| I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there. |
| It's being in the right place at the right time and taking advantage of your opportunities. |
| I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is. |
| Doing a series, every week you work with a new star. |
| I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me. |
| I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children. |
| And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit. |
| Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse. |
| So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge. |
| For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work. |
