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Joan Van Ark
American
Actress
About the author
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,
American
Actress
#Running
You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Life
#Lady
My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Brother
When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Years
#Marathon
I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Friends
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,
American
Actress
#Guest
#Whim
I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Day
I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Want
#God
#Play
I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Church
Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Relationships
#Years
Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Mind
#Running
#Stress
Running is my church.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Church
#Running
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Names
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,
American
Actress
#Country
#Woman
#Women
When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Day
#Job
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
Joan Van Ark,
American
Actress