Quotes by William Devane - Page 1

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.
William Devane / Film Actor
Contests
Emmys
Popularity
Popularity Contest
Contest
Ultimately
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There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
William Devane / Film Actor
Certain
Possessiveness
Sometimes
Writers
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If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.
William Devane / Film Actor
Age
Cheer
Years
Cheers
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The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
William Devane / Film Actor
Aging
Process
Slowing
Stopping
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It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.
William Devane / Film Actor
Knots
Want
Wells
Anymore
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I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.
William Devane / Film Actor
Grew
Grew Up
Neighborhood
Up Grew
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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
William Devane / Film Actor
Feeding
Myth
Presidential
West
Wings
West Wing
Wing
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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
William Devane / Film Actor
Continuing
Shows
Stories
Want
Networks
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Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.
William Devane / Film Actor
Brother
Cathy
Joey
Older Brother
Tv Shows
Tvs
Tv
Along
Show
Older
Tv Show
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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 / Film Actor
Herring
Red
West
West Wing
Wing
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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 / Film Actor
Age
Character
Series
Trying
Sustain
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I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
William Devane / Film Actor
People
Real
Trying
Me People Real
Real People
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When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.
William Devane / Film Actor
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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 / Film Actor
Aging
Destroying
Faces
Beautifully
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood
Practically
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Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.
William Devane / Film Actor
Actors
Shows
Terrible
Complete
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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 / Film Actor
Blue
Eye
Missing
Nypd
Miss
Extent
In My Opinion
Soaps
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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 / Film Actor
Antagonist
Female
Mills
About A Year
Male
Senator
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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 / Film Actor
Episodes
One Time
Time Character Me
Stir
Whenever
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It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.
William Devane / Film Actor
Juvenile
Laura
Mature
Toward
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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 / Film Actor
Doe
Missing You
Opera
Soap
Miss
Terribly
Soap Opera
Viewer
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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 / Film Actor
Architecture
Lines
People
Stories
Writing
Me People Story
Fix
Hard Part
Occasion
Tweaking
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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 / Film Actor
Staff
Supportive
David
Instincts
Instructed
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What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.
William Devane / Film Actor
Play
Reality
Secretary
World
Interests
Synch
Throughout
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I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.
William Devane / Film Actor
Country
Desert
Guy
House
Packing
Pajamas
Time Live Country
Farm
Half The Time
Houses
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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 / Film Actor
Laura
Herself
Originally
Wound
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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 / Film Actor
Couple
Dozen
Half
Horse
Polo
Real
Trustworthy
Anymore
Mountains
Older
Horses
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I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.
William Devane / Film Actor
Modesty
Better Actor
Political World
Real Difference
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The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
William Devane / Film Actor
Bottom
Bottom Line
Eighth
Writers
Loves
Good Stories
Happening
Issue
Raymond
Struggling
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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 / Film Actor
Opportunity
Character
Creation
Credit
Enjoyable
Years
Time Together Me
David
Frowned
Greatly
Nowadays
Opportunities
Sharing
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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 / Film Actor
Pages
Begin
Alter
Realized
Text
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