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All Quotes by author - Ted Shackelford
" And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor. "
Which
You
Actor
" But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth. "
Dropped
Earth
Face
" Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing. "
Everything
Knots
Life
" I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process. "
Act
Process
Reality
" I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76. "
Television
World
Time
" If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would. "
Life
My Life
Rest
" I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there. "
Germany
Train
Love
" I have no interest in writing, directing or producing. "
Interest
Writing
Producing
" In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years. "
Years
Been
Here
" I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much. "
Three
Much
Four
" It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week. "
Storytelling
Good
Back
" I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. "
Degree
College
Back
" Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me. "
Landing
Best
Knots
" My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year. "
Year
Danish
Couple
" On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development. "
Show
Development
Move
" One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax. "
Things
Glad
Relax
" Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them. "
Television
Time
You
" Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film. "
Acting
Real
Film
" The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money. "
Why
Show
Politics
" The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do. "
Being
Out
Series
" Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now. "
Now
More
Used
" What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people. "
You
Become
Nothing
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