It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

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You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

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I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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