I started making movies in 1977, and I didn't even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the 'Guiding Light,' I was like, 'I'm done with television!'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn't going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably.
I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.
I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.
1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.
I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.
Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.
I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.