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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

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

What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

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

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

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

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.

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

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

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

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

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

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the two of us.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

How do you show what's not there? How do you show energy?

Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist.

I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin. I think you're also more aware of your mortality.

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?

I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.

Never stop fighting till the fight is done!

I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That's invaluable. I can't believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful perfect.

How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.