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

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.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you- unless your potion is hard work.

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

I dont see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story everything has an end and a beginning.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe it. It's like, how is this possible?

Will this matter in 10 years?

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

The best stories come out of the truth.

This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media's radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact.

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head on.

The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.