Dallas Quotes

Dallas Quotes by Shaquille O’Neal, Josh Henderson, Jerry Jones, Tiny Tim, Larry Hagman, Stephen Colletti and many others.

The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn’t want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.
My Meema, her favorite show was ‘Dallas.’ She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she‘s looking down on me going, ‘Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.’s son?’
You wouldn’t want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.
I think they should give me a spot on ‘Dallas’ or ‘Dynasty‘ or one of those shows.
Before we shot the pilot, I knew what ‘Dallas’ was, but I actually was too young to remember the details of the show. I didn’t have my hands on the DVDs, so I YouTubed everything I could of J.R.
I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I’m the only guy with a hat. It’s amazing.
I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of me. I’ve always followed the Dallas Cowboys. I’ve been a huge fan since the early ’90s.
When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late ’70s and early ‘80s, as soon as ‘Dallas’ came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.
I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That’s how young I was.
Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, myself, and even Bill Goldberg, for crying out loud, main-eventing Wrestlemania. That is WCW’s legacy.
Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.
Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.
Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5′ 8″ guard with a 95″ vertical.
Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.
He blinked, then roared with laughter. “Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books.” ~Eternity in Death
I had never been to Texas. I’d been through Texas, but I’m so glad to be back in a place that’s not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it’s rich and saturated in American-ness.
I’m working on a cooking show; I’m going to do some of it at Dallas Page’s performance center. I’m going to do a cooking show called ‘Dude Food,’ where I show young guys how to eat good and clean, cheap.
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that’s been created is much greater than the reality.
I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don’t and I really got along with him. I wasn’t scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.
Don’t forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!
I’m the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn’t wear it. I’m a Green Bay Packer.
Herb Adderley
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there – from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security – are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.
I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the ‘Dallas’ TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.
My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.
I never graduated from college. While I was in a mass communication class at North Texas State University, I was on the air weekends in Dallas and knew more about major-market radio than the guy teaching. When I told him that, he failed me.
The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!
When I found out I was going to be a Dallas Cowboy, I just knew I would have to adapt fast. I knew everything would happen real fast. I didn’t really have time to think about it, to be honest.
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
When we started the show, ‘Dallas’ was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR’s home town.
I’m a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He’s this silent warrior.
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour – to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles – is a successful model anymore.
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.
Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.
I’m from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I’ve never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, “I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.”
My significant other, Ms. Angie Harmon. We both grew up in Dallas, we used to model together back in our early days.
Obviously, after the match your fans come up to you and really look but to you but you don’t get too much recognition around town for playing for FC Dallas.
I’m thrilled, I’m grateful, I’m blessed. I played for the world’s greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
I believe it’s not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.
I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it’s them, they’re complaining. … “Sir, could you please stop?”
Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.
I started doing regional theater. My first job was ‘The Importance of Being Earnest‘ at Dallas Theater Center.
Dallas is a good town. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. It always nice to come back.
I went to an all-boys Catholic school in Dallas.
As a child, I watched ‘Dallas’ and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
My Meema, her favorite show was ‘Dallas.’ She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she’s looking down on me going, ‘Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.’s son?
I didn’t really watch ‘Dallas,’ so I wasn’t as wowed by the idea of Patrick Duffy as Swedes were ’cause he’s, like, the most famous guy in all of Sweden.
I was at the AMC Century City movie theater with my mom, and we were walking through the lobby, and these girls came up to me, and they said, ‘Are you Dallas from ‘Austin & Ally’ – and I was like, – yeah, yeah. And they were like, ‘Can we have a picture with you?’ and I was like, ‘Yeah sure of course.’
I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.
I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.
I remember my second year, in the playoff game in Dallas, I remember every play that happened. I remembered giving up a back-shoulder fade in the end zone, scoring.
I’m pretty open to all music. Its pretty funny because I’ve spent time in Germany and now I’m in Dallas where Country is a big thing. I used to hate it but now I can actually go through a song.
I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there’s a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
Dallas is always a fun place to play.
The New York scene is so much bigger than in Dallas.
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. ‘Ice Ice Baby‘ is about that area.
Dallas is obnoxiously positive. He’s been a good friend to me.
If a foreign country doesn’t look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?
I don’t think about it, ‘Wow! I’m the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.’ For me, this is my job. This is what I’ve been preparing to do. And I really want to win badly.
I arrived in Los Angeles on the Monday, had a call from my agent to say they wanted to see me for ‘Dallas,’ made an audition tape at my friend’s house in L.A. the same day, and had the job the following Monday.
My father grew up in West Texas, in Lubbock, and I’ve got family here, and I grew up a Dallas Cowboy fan all my life.
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind – even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
But Hale‘s warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn’t want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.
Here’s the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett – although, considering what you’re marrying into, I’m not certain that’s much of an incentive.” Dallas to Amy
I moved to Dallas, and I started making music.
When I moved to Dallas, I had two big goals. The first, of course, had to do with basketball. I came here to work hard and earn the respect of the fans. The second goal was more personal. I wanted to put down roots in Dallas. That was one of the upsides of signing a four-year deal.
Dallas is a great city, and it’s worth fighting for.
Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar behind my head and do the splits in 1951 when I was nine.
I’d have to say I’m most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.
When I wasn’t wrestling, I got back into school a little bit. In Dallas, there was VIP Wrestling, and in Atlanta, AR Fox has a great school, so it’s good to get back in there and continue to learn.
Noah‘s daughter is different from the girls of ‘Suburgatory.’ She goes to Brown, so she’s in college, and she’s very smart. And his wife is very much a very strong woman. She’s certainly in charge at his house. She’s Dallas’s polar opposite.
Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that’s where I was put in jail.
Obviously, I was fortunate enough in my first WWE experience was to be at WrestleMania in Dallas. That itself was pretty incredible, just to meet everybody and to get familiar with the NXT guys.
I have an apartment in Brooklyn – I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.
You don’t need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female.” “McNab?” Eve said. “Yes, sir.” “Shut up.” “It’s all right, Dallas. We’re a couple.” “A couple of what? No, don’t tell me. Don’t talk to me. Don’t talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.
At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.
I’d worked for the ‘Dallas Times Herald’ for ten years, and its death was a kick in the gut the like of which I cannot recall ever having experienced.
LSU fans have descended upon Dallas and reminded us of this truth: when it comes to partying, they’re the pros and we’re all amateurs.
It’s as simple as you can explain all of ‘Dallas.’ We’re a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
I understand what’s expected of me. I understand the lineage for the running back position of the Dallas Cowboys.
I’ll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.
Anything worth having is worth going for- all the way.
When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.
People latch on to characters who are rude or naughty or bad. Look at JR in ‘Dallas’ or Angie in ‘EastEnders.’ They’re the best parts, the parts people want to be like.
I hate to lose more than I love winning, and I’m coming to Dallas to win a Super Bowl.
Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
I’m originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
Let me tell you something… If you’re anybody – not just me, but anybody – and you can put an oven that doesn’t work at all on eBay and sign your name on it and sell it for 1200 bucks, and somebody will drive from Seattle to Dallas, Texas, to get it, that’s pretty cool.
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.
I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: ‘I will be known as ‘Dallas’ starring Larry Hagman and the cast.’ And at this point in my career – I was in my mid to late 30s – I thought, ‘Now is the time when it’s hottest for me to go out and establish my thing.’
Steve Dallas…a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He’s never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.
I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That’s the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
If you’ve ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
I had never been to Texas. Id been through Texas, but Im so glad to be back in a place thats not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, its rich and saturated in American-ness.
Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.
When it comes to a lip sync, Kennedy Davenport is someone that, when I first turned 18, I was going to the clubs in Dallas, because I went to college there, seeing, and tipping, and would live. She’s the dancing diva of Texas.
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.
Revenge‘ is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like ‘Dallas,’ ‘Dynasty’ and ‘Falcon Crest.’ Yet there’s no wink-wink camp.
I didn’t understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.
Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.
I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.
From the beginning of my career, when I first started on the independent circuit, when I went to Global Wrestling Federation in Dallas and then to WCW, all the way through it seems like titles have been around my waist for some reason, and I always give credit to the fans.
I’m pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
It’s OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can’t kiss another person because he’s a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I’m from Dallas, Texas.
You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is – growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child… I don’t think that’s why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they’ve never copped to it.
Dallas is more in line with mainstream America. But Houston’s farther down on the map where it’s a little different. I think it’s the slowness of our culture, how we move slow. It’s hot in here, you know. We got our own culture, our own slang, a little bit our own way of doing things.
Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They’re supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That’s the world I grew up in.
My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, ‘Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,’ with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
The department store was a product of the 19th century and became a very important institution as America went into the 20th century. It provided show places in developing towns like Terre Haute, Sacramento, and Dallas.
For 30 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines, wrote books on the Dallas Cowboys’ dynasties of the ’70s and ’90s, wrote about Michael Jordan in Chicago and Barry Bonds in the Bay Area, even wrote columns for ESPN.com from 2004 to 2006.
For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I’ve grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. Ice Ice Baby is about that area.
You can make as much as the top-paid quarterback in the league when you’re the Dallas Cowboys quarterback if you do take less.
Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I’d pay a lot to see them, but alas, I’m fully booked elsewhere.
I was shopping at my local mall in Dallas that I’ve gone to for like three years now. And everyone was like “Oh my God, who’s that? Who’s that?” And I was like whatever, because you know, there are like 20 people traveling with me. It’s like I have an entourage following me — which is so funny.
That first match there in Dallas for the G1 was the first time they’d really seen me work as a singles competitor in a really long time. This was kind of a coming-out party. I took it as an opportunity to really kind of reinvent myself. And really start the journey that is The Murderhawk Monster.
I love Dallas.
There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.
I saw a production of ‘The Seagull‘ at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
My sister, Kristin Ditto, was a part of the Cowboys organization from 1998 to 2000 as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.
I’d heard Dallas described as a ‘big, small town’ before, even before I moved. As a kid from an actual small town in Iowa, I was never sure what to make of the description.
Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy searching for.
I have 16 years in Dallas. I would love finish it off there. But I also understand and am not naive enough to think that… it may need to be somewhere else. I think that’s how this business works. So you have to be open to that idea, for sure.
I was the first black director on ‘Dallas.’ I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who I was delivering to.
I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I haven’t missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.
I don’t think I can fully explain what happens when you take on the role of quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. Sometimes, I can’t even explain it to myself.
I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.
Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas – if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.
Suddenly, Dallas has become a big part of my life, and now I feel like I’m part of the fabric of the community here.
Dallas is somebody who genuinely likes helping other people.
In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any “intelligentcritique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.
The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.
Two of our biggest stores are in Dallas NorthPark and Houston Galleria, where the economy and our customers‘ business interests are heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry.
When we got with Dallas Austin, he was just getting on. He was kinda like the fourth member of TLC.
I started doing regional theater. My first job was “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Dallas Theater Center.
It seems like everybody’s weighing in on Trumps campaign – even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is ‘probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.’ Then Trump was like, ‘Well, at least one Cuban loves me.’
Dallas is an extraordinary place in it’s own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can’t get away from, particularly when I arrived, you’ve got no idea of the heat in this place. It’s over 100 degrees, and with that the humidity is ridiculous. I mean, people don’t live here, armadillos live here.
I’ve been in the States and fought before. When I’m in that changing room, I’ll feel as if I’ve been in that situation before. Obviously I’m going to have to deal on the biggest stage, and it’s the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, but it doesn’t faze me.
Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!
The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas’s opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there–the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses–turned the blood cold.
Just the aura of being a Dallas Cowboy, you can’t beat it.
I had no idea the Vikings were interested. I was actually expecting other teams because the Green Bay Packers and three or four other teams asked for film after the combine in Dallas, and the Vikings weren’t one of them.
Seat assignment didn’t matter if you’re flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn’t sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn’t matter.
There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.
You are who you are. I know you. You believe that? “Yea but–” “You’re Eve Dallas. You’re the love of my life. My heart and Soul. You’re a cop, mind and bone. You’re a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occassionally mean as a badger, and more generous that you’ll admit.
Bo Dallas is phenomenal. He’s so confident and has this star aura that shines out of him.
I didn’t come from the West Coast experience, I came from Dallas and I was an introvert and a nerd.
When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.
Diamond Dallas Page didn’t have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.
I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.
I’m from the ‘less is more‘ school. I had to be in the ‘more is more’ zone with ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.
Dallas Austin… where do I begin? I adore him – he is one of the kindest people I know.
Original ‘Dallas’ fans, please come back, because it’s the same show 20 years later – same drama.
Eventually I returned to the W to play in Dallas, because of my coach Fred Williams. But once Fred got fired, I knew that my support there was gone. And that the only way I could stay in the league would be if I were living near my family on the West Coast.
I legitimately wanted to know if Mayor Bloomberg was going to ban large margaritas that I cry over while on a date alone at Dallas BBQ as a part of his controversial soda ban.
I have a music video I was in coming out for M83 for their song ‘Claudia Lewis.’ It’s directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, and I play opposite Lily Collins. It’s a pretty edgy intergalactic music video.
I couldn’t make it work, in the end, in Tulsa or Dallas – in the middle of this foreign country without my support system.
I have been a fan of Forty Five Ten since my first visit to Dallas in 2010, when I was working with the hometown competitor.
Dallas McCarver is my angel. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of him.
I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from ’95 to ’97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
I want to experience Dallas. It’s a new city where I see new business opportunities.
I was brought up in the ’80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of “Dynasty” and “Dallas.” And I just found that terrifying.
I was in Dallas and I had gained weight and knew becoming a vegetarian was the quickest way to lose it. I just wasn’t sure if I could do it.
I really wasn’t on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn’t see too much.
I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg – which is my given name – when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be this over-the-top professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, and Diamond Dallas Page became Page Joseph Falkinburg, that’s when my career took off.