I spent five years in England, I went over there with my mother in the show South Pacific and I just love it. I go back there three or four times a year. I joined the American airforce because the Korean war was going on at one time and I got my call up papers and I was supposed to report back to the United States and get my ass shot off in Korea which I didn`t think was a smart idea and not only that I couldn`t understand what the war was all about, I guess a lot of people could at that time but I still can`t even more than I can the Vietnam war, so anyhow I enlisted in the American airforce and I was stationed in London for four years which was pretty good because I never gave up my civilian apartment in St Johns Wood. I got married, met a Swedish girl there, we`ve been married 46 years now.

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

I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80`s, I don`t think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

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.

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.

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

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.

People I meet really want me to be J.R., so it`s hard to disappoint them.

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.

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

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

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.

I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

But anyhow my stance is for the troops and I support all our children we send over there but I don`t respect people who send them, simple as that.

I didn`t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

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

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.

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

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 have just paid an enormous amount of money for a DELL laptop and its a like giving somebody a 747. I can barely get on the internet to get my mail.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

(On the infamous "Who Shot J.R?" episode): "Before that fateful shot rang out, I was merely bemused by the success of the character. Villainy could be fun, and that`s how I played it. And if it worked. I mean I couldn`t go down to the corner to pick up my copy of the Sunday New York Times without running into some nubile creature with "J.R. for President" emblazoned across her chest. Now a higher, shriller note had been added. People who once merely wanted J.R.`s autograph demanded to know who shot him as if it were their birthright, and were angry and upset when I told them, truthfully, that I didn`t know."

I`m happy to be here. I`m happy to be anywhere. I`m not kidding.

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

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.

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.

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.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

About co-star Linda Gray after her divorce: Maj and I kind of adopted her. She was here at the house nearly every day. We`d call her first thing in the morning to make sure she was alright, we`d make sure she had dinner every night.

"I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!"

"Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world."

"I made money. Enough so I don`t have to work again. But I`d like to, I really would. But I`d want to do something interesting like Santa Claus - or God."

"I`ve been on some loony shows in my time, but this one takes the cake." - when appearing on the BBC`s Shooting Stars, February 2002.