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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.

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It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

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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.

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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

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The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 5th, 1940

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