Year In Review 2019 - v3 - FINAL - Reg1_Year In Review 1 / 6 / 20 4 : 01 PM Page 9 THEY SAID IT ! As an actor , there’s no retirement plan , you hope you can continue working . After being on such well - written shows like Everybody Loves Ray - mond and The Middle , I thought it was going to be difficult to find something that was fresh and was well written . ” — Patricia Heaton I don’t think ‘ Smooth ’ is the best song I’ve ever One funny thing is that I written or the best song still have the two turtles from the [ Santana’s ] ever done , but it was first Rocky film almost 45 years ago the right song and the right time . and they’re about as big as I am . Obviously it was a big help for me They are the only friends that I have and a big help for Carlos to help left [ laughs ] . ” — Sylvester Stallone him connect with a new audi - ence . [ The song ] is very special My love for music is my for those reasons . ” — Rob Thomas grandfather and Lloyd Price’s fault . No one in my Honestly outside of Orlan - family played a musi - do , the Jersey Shore in the cal instrument , but summertime is one of music was on my favorite places . I went to col - wherever we were . lege at Valencia and USF , and I grew up listening especially at USF three quarters to standards and of my class were from Philly and big bands until Elvis Jersey . I always had a close con - came along . For my ninth nection to the people up there . I love birthday my grandfather gave me an Jersey , it has some of the best Italian Emerson transistor radio . One of the food I’ve had outside of Italy . ” — Howie Dorough first songs I heard was Lloyd Price’s ‘ Personality . ’ I’ve been addicted to I told my parents at gradua - music ever since . ” — John DeBella tion I wasn’t going to law school . I was so nervous and But I like true stories and I stressing about telling them , but actually like doing dramatic they were thrilled . I got a couple roles or doing a dramatic of [ acting ] jobs right away , but I movie and also had to work second jobs to adding a little make ends meet — driving a fork - comedy to it . lift , modeling dresses . I got on a I actually soap opera within the first year . prefer to do From that point on , that’s how I made that rather my living . Once I didn’t need the second job , that’s when than like a I felt like I just made it . ” — Lauren Holly straight - out SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 16 issue 10 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 30 |