At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.