Explore Quotes by James Macarthur

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

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

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.

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

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

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