American - Actor | February 5, 1941 -
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
David Selby
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When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
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I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
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I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
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I never found it frustrating not speaking.
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I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
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The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
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I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
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But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.
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The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
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One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
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When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.
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