Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
My brother Mike is a great father, truly one of the best people I know. He also is a guy who keeps his sense of humor around his family.
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The rector of the church I attend is somebody I see almost every Sunday and he gives me wonderful feedback, he was someone I called on very early.
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When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don`t become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.
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Most of the things at home, when people are angry, when I can remember to have a sense of humor about it, it almost always goes better.
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I took the role because it`s rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
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You have to draw on different sides of yourself. So I think if people watch a lot of any actor`s work, they can sort of get to know them.
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You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there`s a lot of rejection throughout an actor`s life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.
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Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He`s fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He`s very shy but has very strong opinions. He`s into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.
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But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn`t say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I`d love to know who turned it down, because I`m sure at least one other actor did. But I`m glad he did, whoever it was.
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I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.
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Don`t try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you`re interested in.
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The process of doing plays will make you an actor.
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I`m working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it`s hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.
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I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I`m going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It`s a role model to me as much as to anybody else.
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Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you`re away for a few days, you have to start again.
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In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.
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I don`t think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.
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Well I`m a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I`m an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn`t give me much free time to surf these days.
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I have an almost seven year old... I think it`s essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.
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I`d be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right.
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I can`t come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won`t be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.
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There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.
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Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he`s not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That`s why he inspires people and inspires me.
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I`m from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.
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I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.
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The next day, we all met in Aaron Spelling`s office and read the script out loud. It was pretty magical - as if we`d known each other all our lives.
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The script was just the best I`d read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn`t expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.
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Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won`t develop your acting chops.
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There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.
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Trivia
Loves classic rock music.
While attending Amherst College, he was an active member of their (mainly a cappella) choral group, the Zumbyes (Class of 1969). In 1968, on a yearly LP released by the group, he was the featured singer (as Steve Collins) on "California Dreaming." Also in the group at that time, singing bass, was Dave Eisenhower (Class of 1970). Eisenhower was the grandson of the former President, and soon-to-be son-in-law to the next President, Richard M. Nixon, who had been Vice President to his grandfather.
He is an accomplished guitarist and songwriter.
Graduated from Hastings High School, in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. In 2003, he was the guest speaker at the high school graduation.
Author of two novels, Eye Contact and Double Exposure
He is a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation
Reverend Eric Camden, Collins`s character on "7th Heaven" (1996), was ranked #11 in TV Guide`s list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
Starred in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). His "7th Heaven" (1996) television series co-star Catherine Hicks, starred in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
His full name is Stephen Weaver Collins. His middle name, Weaver, is a family name on his mother`s side. His great-great grandfather was General James B. Weaver, the 1880 Greenback party candidate and the 1892 Populist party candidate for President of the United States
He and wife Faye Grant have a daughter named Kate (born 1989).
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