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

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.

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.