Joan Van Ark Quotes

#1. I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

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#2. So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

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#3. David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

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#4. I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

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#5. When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

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#6. Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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#7. I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

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#8. I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.

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#9. I still want to do a comedy series.

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#10. Running is my church.

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#11. You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

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#12. When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

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#13. Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

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#14. When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

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#15. Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

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#16. It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

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#17. A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

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#18. They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

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#19. Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

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#20. I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

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#21. When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

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#22. My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

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