JAMES MACARTHUR

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

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

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

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!

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

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

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.

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 am happy to have now as Danny finally a more difficult role, in which I can shoot and fight.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

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

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.