Erika Slezak Quotes

• I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don’t have it, but it is in my family. I’ve always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Dream, Mother

  Tags in dream

• And at five o’clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Beauty, Country

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Training

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Things

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Wonderful, Marriage

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in College

  Tags in Vacation

• Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn’t really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Children

  Tags in California, Working

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in God

• And I’m hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Person

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Children, Experience

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Lifestyle

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

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Tragic, Situation

• 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.

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Audience

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

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theater

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

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Affinity

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

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Job

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

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stage

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

  Erika Slezak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fortune, Happy

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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