James MacArthur Quotes

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

You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

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.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

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.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

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.

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

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.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show.

They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.