Quotes from Ted Shackelford


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    I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

    Interest | Directing


    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.

    Bring | Paid | Guy


    Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

    Theatre | Dinner | Thirty


    Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

    Acting | Theater


    The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

    Run | Writers | Runs


    The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

    Politics | Money | Decision


    Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

    Time | Decisions | Television


    One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

    Relax | Glad | Happened


    My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

    Wife | Year | Denmark


    If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

    Life | Work | Rest


    I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.

    Three | Four | Dallas


    On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

    Move | Continue | Daytime


    I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

    Reality | Moment | Process


    But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

    Earth | Face | Dropped


    And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.


    Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

    Best | Landing | Happened


    It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

    Good | Week | Brought


    In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

    January | La


    Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

    Life | Landing | Knots


    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.

    Men | College | University


       

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