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Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.

- Erika Slezak

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

- Ted Shackelford

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

- Michael Zaslow

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

- Julia Barr

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

- Michael Zaslow

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

- Austin Peck

I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.

- Michael Zaslow

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

- Julia Barr

Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.

- Michael Zaslow

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

- Erika Slezak

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

- Matthew Ashford

I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable.

- Matthew Ashford

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars.

- Hunter Tylo

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

- Austin Peck

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

- Ted Shackelford

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

- Austin Peck

This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled.

- Michael Storm

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

- Donna Mills

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

- Julia Barr

I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about.

- Adam Rickitt