Joan Van Ark

Actress

1942-06-16

Quotes by Joan Van Ark

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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