Quotes from Joan Van Ark

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

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

Running is my church.

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

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

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 a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

When you're 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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