Ted Shackelford Quotes

I'd never done television prior to 'Boardwalk.'

I was on Days Of Our Lives for about three months.

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

I was on 'Search for Tomorrow' for about nine months, then 'Another World' for two years.

I remember the first couple of TV things I did, I was really nervous.

I used to be on 'The Bold & The Beautiful'; that character, Bridget Forrester, is dear to my heart, and of course, the reruns of that you can see.

My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

I've appeared three times on 'The Good Wife.' I'm proud of being associated with the show. 'Time' magazine called it 'the best thing on TV outside cable.' Did I mention that I also appear on cable?

'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

I've done a lot of TV, but not film.

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from 'Armageddon' to 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Contact,' and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment.