Quotes
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
Running is my church.
Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.
My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.
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.
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.
I think if you saw Valene today she'd be much more accomplished as a writer and would be very successful overall.
I still want to do a comedy series.
I played Valene for 14, 15 years; remember I was also on Dallas for 2 years as well so I was getting really tired of playing her for that long.
I never ever ran with anyone on Knots.
I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.
I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body that I wanted to use.
I love the fleur-de-lis because I'm tied to it emotionally.
I have this need to play a funny, zany character after years of playing Valene.
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.
I do remember that TV Guide did a quote that the three of us can be compared to Earth, Wind and Fire. Michele was the Earth, I was the Wind and Donna was the Fire. I think that really captured it.