James MacArthur Quotes

• What a wonderful sight, a full house—my mother would have loved it!

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

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• 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.

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• Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I’ve had.

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• 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.

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• 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

• Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

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

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• The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren’t even allowed on location.

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• 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

• 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!

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• 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.

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• Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

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• My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

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• My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

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• It’s sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I’ve had in having a giving and loving family.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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Birth:	8th December, 1937
Death:	28th October, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

James Gordon MacArthur was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an American actor best known for the role of Danny "Danno" Williams, the reliable second-in-command of the fictional Hawaiian State Police squad in the long-running television series Hawaii Five-O. He was the adopted son of playwright Charles MacArthur, and his wife, actress Helen Hayes. His role in several films include: The Young Stranger, The Light in the Forest, Third Man on the Mountain, Kidnapped, Spencer's Mountain, The Truth About Spring, The Bedford Incident, Battle of the Bulge, Hang 'Em High, and The Love-Ins. His role in television include: The Eleventh Hour, The Great Adventure, and Time Express.

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