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.

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

Kindness is the basic ingredient for the recipe of happiness.

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

I appreciate having been promoted for merit, on merit. And then bringing to bear whatever those extra special characteristics that all of us have.