I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.