The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.