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Ted Shackelford

"Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film."

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"Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film."

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"I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76."
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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 act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."
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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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"But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth."
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