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

When youre 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Running is my church.

The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

There's a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn't so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.