I knew that if I kept playing til 'Gunsmoke' was over, I would never play anything else.
[1971, on acting in Steven Spielberg's 'Duel'] It's overall the most exciting thing I've ever been involved in, This has got to be the best part any actor will get all year. I still wake up amazed I was lucky enough to get it.
'McCloud' was the kind of role I left 'Gunsmoke' to get, I wanted to be a leading man instead of a second banana.
[on giving his Chester character a limp] If I'd have known I would do that role for nine years, I wouldn't have picked a character with a stiff leg. Try making a campfire with a stiff leg.
