I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.