The protagonist of series like Miami Vice he said during his appearance on the show Late Night with Seth Meyers which took Dakota off the family “payroll” when she refused to go to college.
“We have a rule in the family that, you know, if you stay in school, you can stay on the payroll; if you go to college, you can stay on the payroll. Towards the end of high school I went to see her and I said, ‘So you want to go visit some universities?’, or something. And she said, ‘Oh, no. I’m not going to go to college,’ “Don Johnson said.
Faced with her eldest daughter’s refusal to continue her studies, the actor had no choice but to warn her that he would stop keeping her. But he didn’t count on Dakota’s cunning, who replied, “Don’t worry about it.”