You Heard It Here
Chances are if you’ve read a funny, insightful or inspirational quote from a daytime actor, you read it here first.
TRUST FACTOR
“I’m a pushover. I’m too trusting. I’m very naive. People would take advantage of me had I not had other people to say, ‘John, these people are taking advantage of you.’ ”
— John J. York (Mac,
GH), 6/25/91
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING
“It’s been great working with Eric because I learn a lot. He’ll take those long pauses between sentences — or even words — that real people would. In the beginning, that seemed strange. But then I would watch it on camera and it would work. It made the scene so natural.”
— Y&R’S Lauralee Bell (Christine) on Eric Braeden (Victor), 5/7/96
KEEP IN TOUCH?
“When we left [GH], it was such a huge thing. Luke and Laura were so much bigger than Tony and Genie. Both of us really wanted to move on and forget about it. It’s sort of like people who were in the Vietnam War together. I’m sure they don’t meet for lunch once a week and chat about it.”
— Genie Francis (Laura, GH) on staying in touch with Anthony Geary (ex-luke) post-gh, 2/15/94
LOOKS AREN’T EVERYTHING
“I don’t think of myself as glamorous, and I hate having to prove myself because I look a certain way. When someone compliments my acting and then says I’m beautiful, it sort of negates the compliment.”
— Kimberley Simms (ex-mindy, GUIDING LIGHT), 4/3/90
AGE MATTERS
“I have a very difficult time dealing with it because I would not deal with problems the same way a 17-year-old would. I’ve got to keep a handle on being 10 years older than my character.”
— Billy Warlock on playing DAYS’S Frankie,
7/14/87
IQ TEST
“Models have a reputation for being stupid and dumb. And I think that’s because a lot of models are really young. They’re 15, 16, 17, and they really don’t know how to act in social situations, so they come off a little air-heady.”
— Rebecca Gayheart (ex-hannah, LOVING),
2/16/93
TRUE CALLING
“I didn’t become an actor so that I could make tons of dough. I became an actor because I love to act and if I can’t make money acting, I’ll act anyway, even if I have to go into construction like I did in Texas.”
— Brett Cullen (exdan, FALCON CREST), 4/29/89