I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

Of course, western is my native music.

There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

You don't have to make any decisions right now, " Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage."~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.