Michael Joel Zaslowwas an American actor. He was best known for his role as villain Roger Thorpe on CBS's Guiding Light, a role he played from 1971 to 1980 and again from 1989 to 1997... (wikipedia)
Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.
I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.
If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.
My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.
I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.
Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.
I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.
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.
I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.
Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.
I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.
We are treated with such generosity of spirit.
Those last six months were very very exciting. Those death scenes were successful. It was a good storyline, and something poor Roger deserved.
There's got to be a danger to the character; he's got to have some danger inherent in him to really be interesting and fascinate people.
Originally, the part was an architect, but when they found out I was a pianist, they changed it to a world-renowned conductor and pianist.
That situation can be very enchanting. I really wanted to avoid it with every fiber of my being. Even if necessary, embrace poverty.
It's a very insidious situation when you start depending on this paycheck; the dreams you had of the theatre could just go down the drain.
Anyone who goes through the process of trying to conceive a child can feel very isolated. It's easy to get into a why me? mode of thought.
In my dreams I sometimes walk and talk and sing, and Susan and I start dancing up and down, we're so out of our minds with happiness.