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I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
- William Devane
#Going
#Just
#Long
#Red
#West
I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.
- William Devane
#Care
#Day
#Mind
#Person
#Shoot
I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
- William Devane
#Age
#Character
#Find
#Trying
#Week
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
- William Devane
#Blue
#Follow
#Opinion
#Still
#Week
Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.
- William Devane
#Now
#Show
#Things
#Up
#Year
David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.
- William Devane
#Actor
#Character
#Trust
#Who
#Writing
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
- William Devane
#Aging
#Like
#Others
#Someone
#Work
At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that.
- William Devane
#Character
#Hell
#Me
#Time
#Try
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon.
- William Devane
#Credit
#Me
#People
#Time
#Together
And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.
- William Devane
#Children
#Doing
#Done
#Good
#She
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
- William Devane
#Knots
#Know
#Opera
#Show
#Week
I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.
- William Devane
#I Am
#Old
#Play
#Real
#Young
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
- William Devane
#Contest
#Emmys
#Popularity
#Ultimately
Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.
- William Devane
#Along
#Brother
#Had
#Own
#Show
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
- William Devane
#Architecture
#Hard
#Me
#People
#Story
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