"I wanted to just get a job so I could have enough money for my own apartment and be able to get drunk. And I did. Back then, on $125, you could do that in Manhattan. I was 19 years old the first time I got published and paid. I think it was a hundred bucks. I stared at my name on the check for 20 minutes."
Source : "Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman on Returning to 'Dallas': 'We Do What Linda Says'" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 06, 2012.