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Joan Van Ark

"When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"It's an acting job - acting natural."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."

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Joan Van Ark
"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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Joan Van Ark
"I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God."

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Joan Van Ark
"My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in."

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Joan Van Ark
"A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon."

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Joan Van Ark
"I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much."

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

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Joan Van Ark
"When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day."

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Joan Van Ark
"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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Joan Van Ark
"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."

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Joan Van Ark
"Running is my church."

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