Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman
Larry Martin Hagmanwas an American film and television actor, director, and producer best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas, and befuddled astronaut Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson in the 1960s sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth21 September 1931
CityFort Worth, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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Our Ewing family dining room scenes would take forever, and Patrick (Duffy) and I would invariably get into a food fight. Barbara would yell, 'Stop it! I can't stand it!' But she liked it, too.
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LSD was such a profound experience in my life that it changed my pattern of life and my way of thinking and I could not exclude it.
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Communism has kind of been dead for a few years now. They are in the mind set of that's where their living, back in the Vietnam war I guess.
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There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
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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.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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I drank my liver out.
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Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.