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Ted Shackelford

"What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people."

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"What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people."

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"I have no interest in writing, directing or producing."
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"Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing."
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"On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development."
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"In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years."
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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
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"The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money."
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"One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax."
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"Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now."
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"And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor."
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