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William Devane

"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."

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"Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is."

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"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."

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"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."

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"Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity."

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"True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity."

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"I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much."

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"For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity."

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"As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can."

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"In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back."

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"Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit."

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"Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up."
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"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."
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"David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."
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"If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day."
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"At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that."
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