James MacArthur famous quotes

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

#Book #Ideas #Hell

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
-- James MacArthur

#Voice #Long #Use

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.
-- James MacArthur

#Complaining #Actors #Tvs

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

#Beach #Hands #Tree

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

#Agriculture #Colorado #Skis

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.
-- James MacArthur

#Sadness #Walt

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

#Believe #Ingredients #Hawaii

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

#Fun #Years #Would Be

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

#Winning #Guy #World

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

#Thinking #People #Hawaii

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

#Night #Years #Shooting

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
-- James MacArthur

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Shows

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.
-- James MacArthur

#Black And White #Guy #World

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

#Parent #Might #Kind

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

#Men #Needs

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.
-- James MacArthur

#Giving #Understanding #World

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

#Japan #Voice #Guy

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
-- James MacArthur

#Years #Hawaii #Six

I got into the acting business very young.
-- James MacArthur

#Acting #Young

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.
-- James MacArthur

#Home #Giving #Earning

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.
-- James MacArthur

#Mother #Normal #Upbringing

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.
-- James MacArthur

#Believe #Taken #Good Luck

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.
-- James MacArthur

#Risk #Growth #Age

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.
-- James MacArthur

#Children #Want #Marry 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.
-- James MacArthur

#Giving #Winner #Failing

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.
-- James MacArthur

#Years #Actors #Crafts

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
-- James MacArthur

#Ideas #Good Things #Old Fashioned

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

#Hawaii #Grows

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

#Successful #Careers #Acting

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.
-- James MacArthur

#Years #Twenties #Twenty Somethings

I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.
-- James MacArthur

#Thinking #Long #Lasts

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

#Memories #Happy Memories #Electrician