Joan Van Ark Quotations

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

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.

I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

I still want to do a comedy series.

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.

When youre 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.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

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.

Running is my church.

So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.