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William Devane

"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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"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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William Devane
"What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality."
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William Devane
"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."
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William Devane
"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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William Devane
"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."
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"And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done."
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William Devane
"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."
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William Devane
"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."
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William Devane
"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."
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William Devane
"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
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William Devane
"I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did."

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