James Best Quotations

We had no one except Boss Hogg smoking -- and I was always chastising him for that.

I'm a little bit embarrassed about it. It's not the Dukes of Hazzard that we worked very hard on for seven years.

I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly.

We built the castle, and they're stealing the furniture.

When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.

I started painting when I was in high school.

The movie has four-letter words in it. You've got Willie Nelson playing Uncle Jesse, smoking dope? That's not 'Dukes of Hazzard.' It should have been 'Jackass 2,'

That's why you wanted to go to work in the morning, to watch Daisy Duke run around in those shorts.

I told them I didn't like it. It wasn't family-friendly.

I do mostly Southern landscapes. I do beautiful old barns that are falling down, and beautiful trees reflecting in the water. My lovely wife Dorothy and I travel quite a bit, so I take pictures of different things that inspire me to come home, when I come home here in North Carolina, into my art studio and paint these things.