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- "'Where are the kids?' I asked Jackie Zeman , 'Don’t you have some kids somewhere, where are they?' She said, 'We keep them in the basement.' She cracked me up, and I said, 'We need to get those kids out of the basement.' It's a family genre, it's very important that we meet the family, that we meet the generations in each family, and that we interface those families in the town." (en)
- "[The Nurses Ball] was something I wanted to do from the minute I got there. After I met with every actor I got to know who they were not only as an actor, but what their other talents were. I remember thinking, 'Geez, these people can do so much more.' So I always wanted to show off their talents beyond acting. And we did that with Claire. She loved the idea and embraced it totally! It worked for her storytelling in so many ways. Plus we got to really 'put on a show.' The work was hard, but everyone loved doing it. The actors, the entire cast, staff, and crew, all loved it." (en)
- "We can't say that 'General Hospital' and Port Charles become overwhelmed with vampires, because they don’t. But there is some real concern and some questions and confusion and mistaken identity and all those things make for good plotting. It’s really how does the story fit that story and all the baggage that comes back with people like Lynn Herring and me and Michael Easton and Kelly [Monaco]?" (en)
- "They didn’t want A.J. to be in question of having AIDS, or maybe not being 100% heterosexual, they just didn’t want to go there because he was a Quartermaine, which of course, is exactly why I wanted to go there." (en)
- "ABC's General Hospital has essentially turned into 'Sopranos in the Daytime,' [the story revolves around] mobsters and the women who love them. GH is already toning down sex scenes. I don't think they are currently pushing the envelope. Instead, they are relying on trying to show as much skin as they can as a substitute." (en)
- "I think the feel-good philanthropic aspect of the show was missing. ... We celebrate the hospital and the people who are the do-gooders. For a long time the moral compass of the show was off a little bit, and I think now we're back to where it needs to be." (en)
- "If I spent any energy worrying about whether we were getting cancelled, it would take away from making the show the best that it could possibly could be. When you’re running, don’t look behind you." (en)
- I like it from an emotional standpoint. I also like it from a responsible standpoint. Twelve-year-olds shouldn't be picking up guns; I don't care if your father is a gangster. And if they do, there's got to be a consequence. We make directly culpable the people who love him most. (en)
- "Michele explained to me in detail what happened to her and how she reacted. We talked on the phone and we cried together. When I played the scene , it was so real. Afterward, I was kind of numb. My stomach was just in knots. Then, after it was all over, I went home and slept for 14 hours." (en)
- "In 1981, the wedding of Luke and Laura, both shady characters, attracted an audience of nearly 30 million people – in prime time, the equivalent might be a combination of a Super Bowl and the "Who shot J.R.?" episode of Dallas (en)
- "Useless to resist. It is everywhere. On T shirts, umbrellas, potholders, even nightgowns, Puzzles, Piggy banks. At Harvard, where they had a General Hospital weekend. It is a campus craze, a teen-age fad, a licensing bonanza and the top-rated soap on the tube, leaving All My Children and One Life to Live in the dust." (en)
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- —Ed Martin, TV critic for The Jack Myers Report, in 2004. (en)
- —Robert Guza, Jr. in 2008, then head writer, on the shooting of Michael Corinthos. (en)
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- —Wendy Riche on her initial character choice for the (en)
- —Rebecca Herbst on the rape story arc of her character, Elizabeth Webber. (en)
- —Frank Valentini on the revival of the Nurses' Ball. (en)
- —Frank Valentini in December 2011, on the prospect of cancellation. (en)
- —The Associated Press in 1988, looking back on the wedding of Luke and Laura. (en)
- —Time on the popularity of General Hospital in 1981. (en)
- —Jon Lindstrom on the vampire story arc. (en)
- —Wendy Riche on introducing the annual Nurses' Ball. (en)
- —Wendy Riche on her first priorities when taking over as executive producer in 1992. (en)
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