As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.