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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 294806" data-attributes="member: 22">1960JR, speaking about his son James in 1990: I don’t want to see him suffer all the bruises and knocks I got when I was a kid his age [twenty-one].Patricia to Sue Ellen: I stayed with your father though he had far less to offer than JR.Sue Ellen on her father: He left us right after Kristin was born. Kristin Marie Shepard, birthplace: New Mexico.Sue Ellen: When I was a little girl, I used to dream about going to the Far East.JR: When I was in the service, I spent a lot of time in Japan. JR: I never killed anybody, not even during the war.Richard Avery, speaking in 1980: Haven't had mousse this good since I was in the army.Carl Berman on Richard: Was he in the service?Karen: The coastguard, back east.Sid: You remember Mom's apple pie, Abby? Burnt.Abby: Exactly.Mack: Every meal my mother ever made — pasta salad.Michael Fairgate: Even breakfast?Mack: Yeah. Ever hear of a pasta omelette?Karen on flan: Of course, in Philadelphia when we discovered this, it was simply “caramel custard”. There was that instant custard. What was it, that mix? It was called Junket, I think.Jenna on baking: Learned from my father. This is his famous split top wheat bread. Most girls learn from their mothers, I guess. Mine couldn’t cook a thing. She never did teach me anything.Bobby to Miss Ellie: I remember you once told me that family is like baking a cake from scratch — real messy. Donna: When things used to bother me, I would run right to the refrigerator and start eating. I was a fat little kid till I realised that if you just talked to somebody, it meant I wouldn't have to stuff my face.Greg on Anne Matheson: I bet her parents never let her have a lollipop.JR: Never could understand what those vegetarians were about anyhow.Mack: Oatmeal is oatmeal. I never liked it.Ben Gibson: I always hated seafood.Cliff: I happen to like Chinese food because when I was very small, Chinese food was a treat.Lilimae to Val: Black bottom pie used to be your favourite. It always used to cheer you up.Val: I always wanted to know how to make paella. Val: I got no education at all to speak of.Richard on Val: Didn't even graduate from high school.Bess Riker on Val: A ninth-grade dropout.Clay McKinney, screenwriter, speaking in 1997: What I want to know is why you didn’t find me first?Val: Gary and I met when we were kids in Texas, probably while you were still in diapers.Lucy on Gary: Once upon a time, he went off and got this lovely fifteen year old girl pregnant — my mommy.Sid: You must have been babies.Val: I was fifteen, Gary was seventeen.Gary on Val: I was fifteen when I met her. When she smiles or turns her head a certain way, I get a glimpse of exactly the way she used to be.Val: I was fifteen years old, fresh out from Tennessee, waitressing at this little diner just outside of Fort Worth, Texas, at the intersection of two highways.Lucy to Val: But you said you were sixteen to get the job.Val: Most of the customers were truck drivers and I was used to getting teased by them, but this one night, we were real busy. Mary Jo, the other waitress, had called in sick, and I was just trying my very best to keep on top of it. Everything backfired. First, one table started complaining, then another and another and before I knew it, I was right in the middle of it all, in tears, when this blond god got up from the counter and just started helping me. He didn’t say a word to me, he just smiled at me, and I got this real flutter feeling in my tummy, and right away I knew everything was gonna be all right. It was Gary. Val on Gary: I think I fell in love with him that very minute.Kate Whittaker: How did you and Gary know that you were in love? Was it right away?Val: Yep, the very first time we saw each other. Yeah, it was right away. Val to Gary: You were the prettiest man I ever saw. Karen: Val’s been in love with Gary since she was fifteen years-old. Lilimae: Val has given her whole life to Gary Ewing. Val: All I've ever really wanted to do is what's best for Gary.Gary on Val: She spent half her life investing in a dream — me. Her dream of me.Val, speaking about Gary in 1982: I see him the same way I’ve seen him since I was fifteen years-old.Val to Gary: I have spent my whole adult life living for you, ever since I was fifteen years-old. Gary: Trust me.Val: I always have.Val on Gary: He made me feel like a lady. He was there when I got off work to walk me home. “Miss Valene,” he said, “I have the urge to ask you to marry me.” I knew it was just flirting, but it was good flirting.Lucy: What did you say?Val: I didn’t know what to say, but he took that as a yes.Gary: You remember when your mother found us in the garage? Val: Please don’t remind me. What was it you said — we were just looking for what?Gary: I said we were looking for a pencil sharpener. It was the only thing I could think of. Under the circumstances, I considered it a brilliant ad-lib, especially as you didn’t come up with anything.Val: And then Mama said, “You'd have better luck finding it, sweetpea, if you turn the light on.”Val on Gary: He never even touched me. He never even hardly kissed me till after. It was a good thing too, because I would have been scared. I mean, I was always a good girl. Three days later, we got married. Lilimae: My daughter married into the Ewings of Dallas. We were just down-home folk before that.Val on her and Gary: We were so young, sometimes I wonder how we ever survived.Gary on Val: She’s always been a little high-strung.Val to Gary: It’s always just been the two of us together. We only work together. Gary to Val: I have never loved anyone the way I’ve loved you. Val: That’s when I was the happiest — fresh out from Tennessee with Gary at the very beginning.Lilimae: I never married Jonathan J Rush. We fell in love. I settled down. I even joined his congregation.Jonathan J Rush to Lilimae: How spirited you were. I never knew another woman like you.Lilimae, describing herself: She really loved people — too much. She trusted them too much and she got hurt a lot, and she was a beautiful dancer, graceful as a leaf on the wind. Ben: I always had plans on being an important, sophisticated man of the world. I guess it was my small-town upbringing that I was trying to escape. While I was growing up, it was never good enough.LeeAnn De La Vega: I was seventeen years-old, all of a sudden at the University of Texas, the biggest place I’d ever seen. I’d never even been to a dance back home. Michelle Stevens: No wonder you were scared.LeeAnn: It took a while, but I got used to it. I just kind of lost myself in my books and then I got a job in a little restaurant to help pay the bills.Michelle: And that’s where you met him?LeeAnn: Later. It was towards the end of the first year. I’d never met anyone quite like him. He was mighty impressive, Mr JR Ewing — a real high-stepping senior, heir to Ewing Oil. He was something.Michelle: And you started dating him? LeeAnn: After a while. I said no for a long time. Well, there were lots of girls there. JR: I can’t deny there have been a lot of women in my life.Kimberly Cryder: You’re practically a legend amongst the women of Dallas. I wonder if all the wonderful things I’ve heard about you could possibly be true?JR: Oh, I was a pretty fair long distance runner in my time.JR: I’ve found that power and money are a mighty aphrodisiac to a lot of women.An extract from Capricorn Crude, Val’s novel based on life with the Ewings: “Though still seething with anger, she found herself caught up by his passion. His hands were like steel, pressing her against him. His kiss was molten fire. His touch made her shiver. Her desire consumed her. She did not think; she yielded. By then, nothing mattered but being reborn in his touch and as his lips followed the trail of his fingers, she heard her own voice crying out in wild, passionate, shameless love. His eyes opened wide. ‘Alright,’ she sobbed. ‘I love you. There, I’ve said it.’ He laughed and grabbed her as she tried to turn away.”Kimberly: I’ve always been attracted to men of strength, power — men who do what they have to do to get what they want.JR: I’ve always been attracted to women who know what they want and go after it.Karen: There’s something I’ve always loved about southern men.JR: What’s that? Karen: They never forget what it means to be a man.JR: Or how to appreciate a really beautiful woman.Lee Ann: I couldn’t quite figure out why he kept coming after me.Michelle: JR mostly wants what he can’t have.LeeAnn: That might have been it. He finally wore me down. We went out and it was wonderful. Well, I’d never been to the kind of places that he took me. He knew everyone. Cliff: Wally Hampton and JR not only went to the same university, but they were in the same fraternity.JR on Lila Cummings: Boy, I really cared for that girl back in college. Lila, speaking to JR in 1985: You’re still as big a liar as you ever were. Ray on JR: I never knew a man in my life who could lie so well.Bobby: JR always liked that saying of Mark Twain’s, “A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth can put on its pants.”  LeeAnn on JR: Just being with him made me feel kind of special. I forgot all the good things my daddy drummed into me and one day I realised I was pregnant.Michelle: You told him, didn’t you?LeeAnn: Of course. I thought he’d be happy. I thought we’d get married and everything would be all right. What he did was call me everything but the village whore. He said he didn’t think that the baby was his and he wasn’t going to spoil his life by marrying some little no account like me.LeeAnn: I’d like to tell you a little story, if I may. It’s about an innocent young girl who went away to school and fell in love with a handsome prince. They had what she thought was a beautiful romance, but when she got pregnant the prince turned into a frog and he threw her out of his life like five-day-old trash. The moral of the story is that LeeAnn Nelson should never have kissed a toad like JR Ewing. Cliff, speaking to JR in 1989: After all these years, you must have knocked up half the women in Dallas.JR: How did I know you were telling the truth? Do you have any idea how many woman have tried to pull that stunt on me?LeeAnn: I don’t give a damn. It was my life you threw away and it was my self-esteem you stamped out just like that. Michelle: Did you have the baby?LeeAnn: Oh honey, things were different then. Unmarried pregnancies were unacceptable in those days. I knew my parents would never understand and it would cause a scandal in the small town I came from. I couldn’t go home and I couldn’t have a baby. So I did something I’ve regretted all my life. A girlfriend told me about a doctor. Doctor? He was a miserable dirty quack. He did it in some nasty little hotel room. Michelle: You had an abortion.LeeAnn: It was illegal of course, and highly unsafe. LeeAnn: I lost my baby, all right, but I almost died from the abortion. LeeAnn: It took me a long time to recover. I was sick for a long time and I had to drop out of school. But you wouldn’t care about that, of course. I mean, isn’t that what the village whore deserved? JR: I never said that.LeeAnn: You said that and a hell of a lot worse.LeeAnn: By the time I got back on my feet, all my money was gone.Bobby: JR always said, “Fortune and misfortune are just two buckets from the same well.”LeeAnn to JR: You took away the thing most precious to me. Because of that botched abortion, I was never able to have children. Aunt Ginny: I was never able to have kids of my own.Sylvia Lean: I did have Galveston’s son. Peter Hollister: Paul Galveston was my father too.Greg: Yeah? Funny, he never mentioned you. According to your resume, you were born 1960, in …Peter: Baltimore.Greg: Baltimore. Now what’s a guy like Galveston doing in Baltimore?Peter: He was nowhere near Baltimore when I was born. Just my mother and me.Sylvia: Peter’s father knew that from the day Peter was born, his son would make it big. He came to see me in the hospital.Laura: I thought you said his father never laid eyes on him?Sylvia: Oh yes, you’re right. He never laid eyes on Peter after that first visit to the hospital.Greg: Galveston kept a file on the kid’s mother. He was sending her support payments.Sylvia: Never give a man what he wants until you get that ring.Laura: My mother used to say the same thing.Laura: My mother never told me about sex, but she sure drummed into me about childbirth and how it hurts. She said no woman would have a second child if she could remember the pain of the first. My mother said that childbirth is a woman’s curse, that the best thing to do is just lie there, suffer through it and then pray you don’t die. I heard it all my life. My mother had a million stories about women dying in childbirth. Laura: When I was twelve, my mother died. It was hard. We were close. I was the youngest. I really tried to replace her, especially for my dad. It was impossible. I couldn't be her for him, as much as I wanted that.Hank, Laura’s father: You made me take [your help] when Mama died. You were only twelve years old. Your brother was out on his own and your two sisters were already married.Laura: I was the only one left.Hank: And I was miserable and crotchety.Laura: Well, you were lonely.Hank: I remember how hard you worked to keep the house clean, cook my meals, iron my work clothes and sit beside me night after night, quiet and not say a word.Laura: I tried to take Mama's place, but I couldn't do that.Hank: But you made me feel like I wasn't alone. I was hard on you, Laura, but you knew what to do. You were there and you did it.Chip Todson, speaking to Laura in 1980: How does a woman like you get to be a woman like you?Laura: When I was a kid, I used to feel like I was invisible, that people never noticed me. I used to do things to attract attention, any attention. Not bad things, good things. Val: I bet you were a straight A student.Laura: No. I was the kid who had to work twice as hard as anyone else just to make Bs. It was always like that. It was never enough. I always had to do more, or do it better or faster.Bobby to Jenna: The Braddock school system was good enough when you and I were growing up.Bobby on kissing Jenna for the first time: I was ten years old. I was scared out of my mind. I knew she was in the barn so I was going to go around the barn, climb up in the loft and sort of swing down on a rope, make an Errol Flynn entrance.Jenna on Bobby: He was trying to scare me.Ray: He was famous for that sort of thing.Bobby: The only problem was the rope was attached to the grain chute door so when I grabbed onto it and swung the doors open, a couple of thousand pounds of grain fell out!Jenna: He wasn’t welcome at my daddy’s ranch for quite a while.Bobby: Your daddy took it way too seriously.Mark Graison: I wish I’d met you when I was ten. I wish we’d had all that time together.Pam: I wasn’t very cute when I was little.Mark: You would have been just perfect for me.Rebecca: I’ve never been able to talk Katherine into much of anything.Katherine on her father’s office at Wentworth Tool and Die: I was three feet high last time I saw it. Daddy had an antique cabinet. It was wood with a bold grain, probably oak. It was so beautiful. It always seemed to belong there.Rebecca on Mike Hughes: He’s done business with Wentworth Tool and Die for years.Mort Wilkinson, Galveston refinery owner, speaking in 1980: I never had more than a handshake agreement with the Ewing family for twenty years.Dandy, mid-story in 1987: ... I told them twelve years earlier there was oil in that ground. Did they listen? No, they was too college-educated to listen to me. While they had their noses stuck in their reports, mine was smelling oil.April Stevens: I’ve been poor my whole life.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played Sue Ellen in Dallas?