Shackelford Quotes & Sayings

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor. — Ted Shackelford

My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year. — Ted Shackelford

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development. — Ted Shackelford

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax. — Ted Shackelford

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week. — Ted Shackelford

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it. — Ayn Rand

What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people. — Ted Shackelford

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money. — Ted Shackelford

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you. — Dolly Parton

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much. — Haile Gerima

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us. — Richard J. Corman

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76. — Ted Shackelford

You sweet thing," he murmured. "You're the sweetest thing. I don't know what to do, what to do, Tania." He kissed her lips — Paullina Simons

His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. It consists
utterly and entirely
of diversions which he cares next to nothing about, here in the earth, yet is quite sure he will like them in heaven. Isn't it curious? Isn't it interesting? You must not think I am exaggerating, for it is not so. I will give you details. — Mark Twain

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do. — Ted Shackelford

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth. — Ted Shackelford

Chesler cites the claim by the Palestinian American writer Suha Sabbagh that Western feminists, simply by writing about Muslim women, exert "a greater degree of domination" over those women "than that actually exercised by men over women within Muslim culture." A brown woman in (say) some Pakistani village, then, is actually more oppressed by some white woman tapping away at a computer at some American university she's never heard of than by a man who's beating and raping her in her home. — Bruce Bawer

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much. — Ted Shackelford

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.' — Bill Engvall

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes. — Ted Shackelford

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there. — Ted Shackelford

I was in a Paris for four or five days and I couldn't believe the reaction I got there. It was just bizarre; people recognizing me left and right. — Ted Shackelford

It is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability. — Simone De Beauvoir

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin. — Hilaire Belloc

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years. — Ted Shackelford

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. — Ted Shackelford

The reason that people say one line at junkets is that they've heard the same question 37 times. You get bored out of your mind. — Ted Shackelford

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would. — Ted Shackelford

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing. — Ted Shackelford

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process. — Ted Shackelford

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them. — Ted Shackelford

Ultimately, every human being must face this question: What do you think of Christ? Whose Son is He? We must answer this question with belief and action. We must not only believe something about Jesus, but we must do something about Him. We must accept Him or reject Him. — Billy Graham

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. — Ted Shackelford

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing. — Ted Shackelford

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now. — Ted Shackelford