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 Howard Keel Quotation(about filming dinner scenes on Dallas) "The continuity girl goes crazy. The poor dear, my gosh! Because, you take a bite, you gotta remember when you took the bite, what words, that sort of thing. If you sit down with Pat Duffy, who plays Bobby, and Larry at a meal like that, it's like sitting down with two of the worst brats in the neighborhood! They pull more schitck at that table. They send the scripts up. It is pandemonium! It's a minor miracle that anything gets done." (about his heart surgery) "One person who has really been an inspiration for me in this is my good friend Barbara Bel Geddes, who underwent coronary bypass surgery herself about three years ago. I've learned some things from Barbara. One thing I learned is that you don't accomplish anything by sitting around the house after something like this - except to get yourself good and bored. I was one of those that encouraged her to come back to the show, and I've never seen Barbara looking happier or more healthy looking than since she returned to Dallas. Seeing her return has been a real inspiration. It shows how you can come back from heart surgery." (about his choice to go ahead with open heart surgery in January, 1986, despite the risk of losing his job on Dallas) "There is always another part. But there is only one life!" "Any time you get in an area that takes a great deal of skill, you'll find that the tendrils are much more sensitive. People talk about actors being temperamental, but that sort of thing is everywhere." "Once somebody said to me, `How can you stand to work in a tent?' Well, people are people wherever you go, and a performance is a performance. It's your job and it's not fair to let an audience down. I will not relax the standards of what I feel should be done." "You know, people say 'Wait and go to heaven.' Well, if heaven's like they claim it is, I don't want to go. I'd get bored." "You should never envy anyone. One day you might be in that person's position and it might not be so nice." "The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death." "I'm not a religious man. As a matter of fact, I think religion is one of the biggest evils in this world. Think of the world's wars, almost all of them have started because of religion. I have my own attitude to this life. Hell, you can't look up at the sky and not think there's some superhuman force at work. But I don't know what it is." "When I found out that I could carry a tune, well, I came to realize that I had a gift, that it was a kind of a blessing. And I think if you're given something special, you ought to try and give that something back. If you don't, it's a sin. No question." (About his work on Dallas) "I started out a long time ago, and now the younger generation knows who I am. My daughter is a part of that younger generation, and I owe it to her not to act like an old man." "You get your ups and downs but you just don't fall apart. You take another shot at it." (About his job on Dallas) "When I was offered the role of Farlow, I was thrilled. It meant I could be home every night with my family." "Success can be harder to take than failure in a lot of ways. It brings with it a responsibility. You have to learn that all the highs don't last forever. For every high, there's a corresponding low. It's why young kids often go to pieces. When they get so popular they can't go out of their hotel rooms, that's when they turn to drugs. Success can be very dangerous, very heady." (About retirement) "I'm just having too much fun. As long as I can sing well, I'll keep at it. The minute I feel that the voice is getting down, the minute I feel that I can't cut the mustard, I'll quit." Movie Title: Across the Wide Missouri (1951) as Narrator: Narrator : Trees lie where they fall, and men were buried where they died. Narrator : My father told me that for the first time, he saw these Indians as he had never seen them before - as people with homes and traditions and ways of their own. Suddenly they were no longer savages. They were people who laughed and loved and dreamed. Narrator : My dad wasn't just one man named Flint Mitchell. He was a breed of men... mountain men who lived and died in America. He used to tell me about these men he knew. Men who walked the Indian trails and blazed new ones where no man had ever been before. Men who found lakes and rivers and meadows. Men who found paths to the west and the western sea; who roamed prairies and mountains and plateaus that are now states. Men who searched for beaver and found glory. Men who died unnamed and found immortality. My father always began his story by telling me about the summer rendezvous of the mountain men. This is where they met every July after a year of trapping in the Rockies. Here they cashed in their furs, caught up on their drinking and the fighting and the gambling and the fun... and the girls. They lived hard and they played hard. Movie Title: Calamity Jane (1953) as Wild Bill Hickok: [The singer is a man in drag] Wild Bill Hickok : She ain't very pretty. Calamity Jane : That ain't all she ain't. Movie Title: Zane Grey Theater (1956) as Will Gorman: Will Gorman : Now, listen to me boy. When you start with a gun you become something that people hate and fear. And they're just waitin. Waitin' for someone to come along just a little bit faster than you. Then they'll spit on your grave and buy drinks for the winner. Will Gorman : Don't try it, boy. Don't try it. Movie Title: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) as Adam: Milly : Well, it wouldn't hurt you to learn some manners, too. Adam : What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife. Movie Title: Dallas (1978) as Clayton Farlow: Clayton Farlow : There's gonna be hell to pay. JR Ewing : Well, hello Clayton. Come to take mama out? Clayton Farlow : Yes, we're going out to dinner. Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing : She'll be down in a minute. Oh, excuse me. Clayton Farlow, Roy Ralston. Roy Ralston : How do you do? Clayton Farlow : Oh yeah, you're the fellow that has the talk show J.R.'s been on. Roy Ralston : Yes I do. I'm sure you share my enthusiasm for J.R.'s appearances on my show. Clayton Farlow : Not really. Roy Ralston : Well, J.R.'s becoming the champion of the underdog. "I have a feeling he'll be leaving for Washington right after the next election. Clayton Farlow : Well, Dallas's gain'll be Washington's loss! Eleanor Southworth Ewing Farlow #1 : Clayton, I'm so sorry I kept you waiting. JR Ewing : No more than we are, mama. Movie Title: Show Boat (1951) as Gaylord Ravenal: Gaylord Ravenal : [borrowing Magnolia's jewels so that he can pawn them] Don't worry darling, it's only temporary. Magnolia : Everything can be temporary - -except us. |
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