My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.
I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
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.
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.
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.
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.
A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.