Top 18 Gregory Harrison Quotes

I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It’s going to be called Safe Harbor, and it’s an hour show. It’s a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.

And that’s the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn’t feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don’t have that kind of interest or time any more.

But I can’t wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I’m really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It’s been a wonderful year.

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there’s a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It’s tough.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

I didn’t feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people‘s fingerprints all over that aspect.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I’ve written hundreds of songs, and I’m sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.

7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it’s a 9:00 to 10:00 show.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.