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"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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"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions."
"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
"I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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