Top 35 Quotes by James MacArthur

I got into the acting business very young.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

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.

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