William Devane Quotes

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• The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
• 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.
• 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.…
• There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
• And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together…
• Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
• I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
• 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…
• If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.
• It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.
• The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
• Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
• When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's…
• 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…
• It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took…
• 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…

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