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.
In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.
As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.
My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.
A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.
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.
Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.
Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.
For years I have played the twenty-something lover.
But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.
Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.
My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
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.
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!
You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.
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.
Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
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.
Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
