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.

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

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

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

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.

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