Dallas (TV Series)

Brothers and Sisters (1983)

Larry Hagman: J.R. Ewing

Quotes 

• J.R. Ewing : [re having learned that Clayton is moving into Dallas]  Well, if that doesn't put a pall on the evening...

• Sue Ellen Ewing : You miscalculated. Pam's walking out on him didn't have the effect that you anticipated.

  J.R. Ewing : Is that right?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : He feels that he's lost everything now that his family's gone. He'll stop at nothing to get Ewing Oil.

  J.R. Ewing : The last gasp of a drowning man, huh?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : If you would have seen his face when he told me, I think you would feel differently.

  J.R. Ewing : We'll see. We'll see.

• J.R. Ewing : What risk? I could go to jail for sending oil to Cuba.

  Walt Driscoll : He's the one making it look like it's going to Puerto Rico.

• Walt Driscoll : He wants a hundred-thousand dollars or he says it's a no go.

  J.R. Ewing : All right, give it to him.

  Walt Driscoll : That's a lot of money, J.R. I could call his bluff and see what happens.

  J.R. Ewing : Let him have it. He's got me over a barrel. I have to make this deal no matter what, understand?

• J.R. Ewing : [dumps a mailsack of letters on J.R.'s office floor]  What on earth is all that?

  Roy Ralston : A present for you from the TV station, in response to your appearances on my show. Comes to 1,431 letters, all saying, in effect, if you ever decide to run for political office, those people will vote for you.

  J.R. Ewing : Well, I'll be damned.

• [last lines] 

  Walt Driscoll : The Cubans are prepared to buy all the oil you want to sell at forty dollars a barrel... . Oh, they're anxious for that oil, J.R... . What have you got in mind, J.R.?

  J.R. Ewing : One million barrels.