It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

Running is my church.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Nothing exalts the soul or gives it a sheer sense of buoyancy and victory so much as being used to change the lives of other people.

The fact of just being there was phenomenal.

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Anytime I have communicated with college-going people, fresh out of college, looking for a job - money is very important, that is just so important. What is not important is how do you plan to live your life or the larger picture. Not that I had such philosophical intentions when I was 18, but I think there was lesser importance for money.

I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

You can't change the system through violence.

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.