Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.

O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!

My heart beat Beats me senselessly Why's everything Gotta be so intense with me.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.