Joan Van Ark Quotes

#1. If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

Ted Shackelford

#2. Labor is the law of happiness.

Abel Stevens

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

Joan Van Ark

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

Joan Van Ark

#5. Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

Ambrose Bierce

#6. 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.

Joan Van Ark

#7. The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

Ted Olson

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

Joan Van Ark

#9. 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.

Joan Van Ark

#10. Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

Garrison Keillor

#11. My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Richard Dawkins

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

Joan Van Ark

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

Joan Van Ark

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

Joan Van Ark

#15. 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.

Joan Van Ark

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

Joan Van Ark

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

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

Joan Van Ark

#19. Running is my church.

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

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

Joan Van Ark

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

Joan Van Ark

#23. With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

Jean Piaget

#24. 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.

Joan Van Ark

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

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

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

Joan Van Ark

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

Joan Van Ark