Erika Slezak Quotes

• You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices – they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

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• We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.

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• Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.

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• There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There’s nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

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• The worst storyline I’ve ever been involved in I wasn’t involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God – that was the worst storyline.

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• Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.

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• My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that’s how it was in those days.

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• My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff – like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I’m very grateful for… I thank him for it regularly.

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  Tags in Husband, Home, Boring

• My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is – well, our daughter and our son – is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they’re home in the summer, although they have jobs.

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• Jean’s whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

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• If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

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• I’ve obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.

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• I think it’s a mother’s dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

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• I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there’s simply no time for.

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• I mean, I don’t necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good play.

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• I haven’t been on the stage in a long time.

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• I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

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  Tags in Personal, Affinity

• Fame an fortune are nothing if you’re not happy and healthy.

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• Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.

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  Tags in Successful, Audience

• But also, it’s a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

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  Topics in Children, Experience

Erika Slezak (24)

Birth:	5th August, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Erika Alma Hermina Slezak was born in Hollywood, California, USA. She is an American actress, best known for her role as Victoria Lord on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1971 through the television finale in 2012 and again in the online revival in 2013. She is one of the longest-serving serial actors in American media. In her 42 years in the role, she won six Daytime Emmy Awards, which is an Emmy record. Additionally, she won a Soap Opera Digest Award for Favorite Couple with Mark Derwin in 2000.

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