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"I was very, very demanding. I would never settle. Sometimes, you have to because of the time element. But if I could, I would not settle. I'd say, 'Come on, we can  get better than that.' I always pushed. And that pushed (the writers). So it was a 'love-terror' arrangement. There was a lot of terror, and a lot of love."

"I wanted all the time onstage that I could get, all the laughs that I could get. [I was] especially good when the audience was encouraged to shout out a suggestion. And one night they said, 'the morning after the night before.' So I invented all the characters. It was a party and there was the guy who ran the party and then the other characters, and I found that I had the worst hangover ever in anybody's life. Everything that happened on that stage that night was not written, not prepared. It was created as the audience saw it. And I began to feel okay. I began to feel that maybe that's what I want to do."  

"Once you cause somebody at home to talk to the television set aloud, even by himself or herself, then you've got a good game show."  

"Dallas is certainly the highlight of my career. There's nothing I've ever done as big, and most actors never had a chance to do anything that big either. Who knows why."

"You know sometimes when you act, you work through some things as if you would in a therapy session."