"I was teaching a Sunday school class at one of the churches in Waycross, Georgia, where I grew up. And the lesson dealt with equality and all of us being one under the eyes of God. All of a sudden it hit me!! This isn't true! The church was - is- the most segregated place one day a week there is in our country. And it's so ironical and so tragic that here's a philosophy which preaches and teaches human understanding and brotherly love and practices, in essence, the most vicious form of human relationship there is." "I had six seasons of playing the eldest son on that show. Six seasons of feeling like a damned idiot, going around -- me, like a middle-aged teenager, saying, 'Yes Pa', 'No Pa' on cue. it was downright disgusting -- such dialogue for a grown man. I felt I wasn't being taken seriously as an actor and that's like death to one's talent...Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability." -- PR on why he left "Bonanza" "I'm never satisfied with my own work."