I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.