| | "It's A Love Story Betweeen Two Men Who Happen To Be Cops"—David Soul
"Whatever else the show is about, there's one thing you can't get past, and that is that it's about two people, two human beings, loving each other and caring for each other." --Paul Michael Glaser, magazine interview, 1976
"There's an incredible relationship, between two men, you know, that care a great deal about each other that people can watch and say, 'Gee, those two guys really care about each other. And that's something I need in my day-to-day life and that makes me feel better.'" --David Soul on Merv Griffin, 1977
On a TV Guide spot they did during the LA movie premiere, when asked which was better marriage material (Starsky or Hutch) David Soul answered, "I've always been fond of Starsky myself."
"Starsky & Hutch is listed as a 'crime drama', but in my opinion, the show is a love story between two men. If I love somebody, I'm not ashamed of it. People can watch and think that it's sure nice to see somebody caring about somebody like that—unabashedly." -David Soul
"I think the strength of the whole show lay in the fact that Starsky loved Hutch and Hutch loved Starsky. There's nothing unmanly in the love of a man for a man." -David Soul
"Isn't any friendship a love story?" -Paul Michael Glaser
"If you can think that way -- if you want to think it's a homosexual relationship, if you think that's what it is -- then that's what it is. It's not... you know, I guess first of all one has to decide what 'sexual' means, and go from there. If you're thinking of it in terms in a physical sense, then absolutely not. If one is thinking of 'relationship' in a sexual sense as it relates to a kind of unselfish giving and receiving from another human being, that is there." -- David Soul on BBC Special, 1980
"I think the American people have seen this show, Paul, in a way that maybe is not played too much, press-wise. And I think they've seen a relationship between two men who could be anything, and I think in accepting that and giving us this award makes me feel really good about it, because I don't think there are other male relationships that are exposed that way." --David Soul (speaking to Paul) in their acceptance speech for the 1977 People's Choice Awards
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