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

Running is my church.
Joan Van Ark

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

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

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

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