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

I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
Joan Van Ark

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

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

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.
Joan Van Ark

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

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

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

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

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.
Joan Van Ark


Running is my church.
Joan Van Ark

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

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

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

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.
Joan Van Ark

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.
Joan Van Ark

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