Joan Van Ark Quotes


"You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Life, Lady)

"My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Brother)

"When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing."
- Joan Van Ark
"A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Marathon, Years)

"I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Friends)

"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."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Guest, Whim)

"I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Day)

"I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: God, Play, Want)

"I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Church)

"Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Relationships, Years)

"Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Mind, Running, Stress)

"Running is my church."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Church, Running)

"So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Names)

"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."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Women, Country, Woman)

"When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer."
- Joan Van Ark
"When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day."
- Joan Van Ark
(Related: Acting, Day, Job)

"It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back."
- Joan Van Ark