Ralph waite
I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming...
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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[birds twittering] (John-Boy) WHEN I WAS GROWING UP ON WALTON'S MOUNTAIN, I HAD A TENDENCY TO THINK OF MYSELF AND MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY AS THE ONLY WALTONS. BUT THAT WASN'T TRUE. WE WERE...
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[birds chirping] (John-Boy) WALTON'S MOUNTAIN MEANT MANY THINGS TO MY FAMILY. IT WAS A SOURCE OF FOOD FOR WE TOOK GAME FROM ITS FORESTS AND FISH FROM ITS STREAMS. IT WAS A REFUGE IN TIME OF...
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JOHN-BOY: There was one daily reality to our life on Walton's Mountain, and that was the Depression and our constant and continuing need for money. I count it remarkable that we and others...
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