When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.

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.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

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