Victoria Wyndham
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Soap Opera Weekly July 1997 Victoria Wyndham on Matt Crane (ex- Matt Cory): I have a great deal of affection for that kid.

Soap Opera Weekly July 1997 Victoria discussing her 25 years at AW: I don't consider this a career- this is a job. My career was raising my children.

Soap Opera Digest Oct. 10, 1995 Victoria on being a replacement: It's always difficult to take over a part. Robin Strasser [ex-Rachel, AW; Dorian, OLTL] was well loved. What's not to like about Robin? She's an excellent actress and a wonderful person

Soap Opera News July 1997 Victoria on being on AW for 25 years: I never dreamed it would last this long.

We don't say 'lawyerettes' or 'writresses.' We are actors.

There is a wisdom that can be achieved by just sheer longevity...if you are paying attention.

I had to bring up two children and get them through school. But, they're all grown up now. If and when I can help them, great! But, now it's a time in my life when I need to feel fulfilled and not stagnate. You make sacrafices when you're a parent because that's part of the job. So, I was prepared to make sacrafices for 25 years!


Horse back riding is a wonderful hobby. It's absorbing, meditative and is also the most difficult kind of physical exertion.

I don't know any women my age who doesn't say, 'I'm smarter now than I was. I'm in better shape. I'm better mentally. I know what I won't put up with and what I will put up with. That is something to feed young people.

The day he died (Douglass Watson, ex-Mac) was the worst of my life. If it weren't for the the people here understanding, I would have walked out and kept walking.

You are lucky if you get one great acting partner in your life. I've been lucky to have two.

There is never a time when an actor stops growing. Once you stop growing as an artist, you're over. Time to become a waitress again.

Vicky's passionate, and part of her creativity is her passion, which is great to watch. I love working with her. -Linda Dano(Felicia)

A sharp intellect.There's a pile of erudition sitting in there. -Charles Keating on Victoria

I am so happy for her and proud of her. She is a wonderful lady. She's brilliant, intelligent, and wonderfully talented.- Judi Evans Luciano on Victoria's 25 Years

"He's a great clown. In addition, he's proven to be something of a stunt artisit! He clears six-foot fencing easily and has even deftly managed to jump between barbed wire fencing without a scratch! If he were a horse, I'd be winning tons of trophies!" -about her Fox Hound, Beaugueard

"If there were any audience members, and there were certainly a lot of the Soap Press, who did not go with this story from the beginning and thought itwas stupid. I don't blame them. The way they told it was stupid." on the Justine Kirkland Story

"I would have been a biologist, or a zoologist, if I had followed that route. And it would have been neat to see if I could have been a good enough opera singer."

"We were always performing at home. I remember seeing Mary Martin in Peter Pan and (loving it). As the oldest sister, I'd play Peter Pan and I'd make Vic play Wendy." Felice, Vicky's older sister.

"I would almost certainly have to say Vicky because she has been here the longest and has a keen sense of history." -Mark Pinter(Grant) on who is the show historian.

"I don't eat lunch. I think better when I'm hungry. Food for me is relaxation. It is something for the end of the day. I've got more energy than God!" Linda Dano(Felicia) agrees and says, "If she ate, we'd have to kill her!"

"Vicky Wyndham is a wonderful actress who cares intensely about her character and about maintaining her character's integrity. She is a joy to work with." -Charlotte Savitz

"When somebody attaches a number of years to the time that you've done a job, you look back at your own life and find yourself thinking that it just went by like that." -Tom Eplin(Jake) on Vicky's 25 years on Another World

"I do my hair myself as opposed to the show's stylists, because it's quicker fo rme to do it. My hair sometimes looks like I did it with a beater. Sometimes, my hair gets too soft with humidity and that's a problem. When we lose the humidity, it gets lank and stringy and there's really nothing I can do. So, I like the humidity because it gives it volume. Thank God I've got great and very forgiving hair. Now that straight is in, it's much easier to maintain." -VICTORIA WYNDHAM(RACHEL)

"I was on Guiding Light (as Charlotte Waring Bauer). I was pregnant with my first baby (son Darian), and I was working a difficult schedule, and something wasn't right with the baby and me. I was too young to insist that they let me go home; I had never been pregnant before and I didn't know this was dangerous. My husband was out of town, so I couldn't call him to get any backup. But there was one boom operator who was getting more and more upset that they weren't letting me go; he kept saying, "So how will you get home?" I said, "I don't know, I'll take the subway." He said, "You can't do that." So without telling me, he called his wife. They lived way uptown--(far from) the studio--and she had to put all those children (he had something like eight or 10) in their station wagon, and they came all the way down. They lay me in the back of the station wagon and they stayed with me until my husband came home. That was one of the greatest acts of kindness I think I've ever had."-Victoria Wyndham

Victoria on the grossest thing that she had to endure for a love scene SOM July 11, 1995:"I worked with this guy- this is really disgusting- who used to eat limburger cheese on his lunch break. He was one of those eat-your-face off-kind of kiss people. Guess What? He lasted on that show for 5 minutes"

Soap Opera Digest- March 11, 1997 Laura Moss(ex-Amanda) praises Victoria for showing her the ropes "She knows the routine like the back of her hand. Sometimes I just sit back and watch her"

Soap Opera Update- August 22, 1995 Victoria on playing Justine: "The writer and actress in me loves this character, Rachel and Vicky need a break from each other. An actress loves a challenge like this."

Seli Groves, New York News columnist on a Douglass Watson interview from 1979: I recall asking him about an interview in which he said he refused to repeat "I love you" to the character of Janice Frame. Watson explained that those three words should only be said to one woman.

Soap Opera Digest- December 15, 1998 Matt Crane on returning to Another World and working with Victoria Wyndham again. "I've always had a special place in my heart for Vicky. She was there when I first came on. She made me feel at home, and was a very nice lady."

How does Victoria Wyndham feel about Rachel raising another set of kids?
"I guess if I were in Rachel's shoes, I would want to do it all again; I guess you would if you were really in love. But I can't imagine doing this."



Another World 35th Anniversary Collector's edition: Linda Dano thoughts on Victoria Wyndham: "Wyndham is without equal. She's smart, she's clever and the partI like best, she's funny."

Another World 35th Anniversary Collector's edition:ON Matt Crane and Doug Watson's Death: "Matt Crane was brought on when Matthew was upgraded from a seven-year-old straight up to a sixteen-year-old. This little Kid who had never done any work before, but he was just delightful. He was both an old soul and a young soul at the same time. When Doug [Watson, Mac] died that kid was the only one in the whole cast who really understood what I was going through because he had lost his own father recently. He was the most amazing support to me during that time. He understood the depth of the relationship-- that it was more than just that's my acting partner or my co-star, but that it was a friend I had lost, a very close friend. There were many days when I'd get in the middle of a scene and I'd have to leave and go behind the sets because something would trigger a memory. It was always that kid who would go quietly to the stage manager and say, 'Just give her a minute.' He was unbelieveable. He got me through it. So I have a great deal of affection for that Kid."

Victoria on AW's backstage friendships ending, "People go to different coasts, they have different hours, so its one of those things to know that as much as you might want to, you're not going to be able to catch up with people. That is certainly what I will miss. It's the people here who have made this place bearable."
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