“I think my family sees me playing a pastor on TV and thinks that's a w...” — Merle Dandridge Quote

“I think my family sees me playing a pastor on TV and thinks that's a way of saying I have the calling, too.”

“I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.”

“In the theater, you have to speak so people in the last row of the peanut gallery can hear you. With television, the camera does that work for you.”

“My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.”

“Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.”

“I come from a religious family - my father is a pastor, my uncle, my sister and her husband are a pastor team.”