Joan Van Ark Quotes

(on why its time for another "Knots Landing" (1979) reunion show) They want to see if we`re in wheelchairs and walkers yet.

Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can`t do that much longer.

I didn`t even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

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.

So I had all the names, three names, and that`s good to have on a soap.

I`m Presbyterian and I don`t go to church very much.

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

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

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

I never ever ran with anyone on Knots.

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.

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn`t coming back.

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.

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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

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.

Running is my church.

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