Kate Collins(I)

In 1989, during a guest co-hosting stint on Good Morning America (1975), she interviewed her own father, who was a Command Module Pilot on the historic Apollo 11 mission (the first moon landing) in 1969, and she deemed it as her "most difficult" interview she has done.

I decided right then and there, I would do anything I could to get a soap job. Besides, I like having a job. A routine, a commitment, somewhere I have to be everyday. And I was thinking about the whole 'You're not an artist unless you're a starving artist' thing - and then I thought, 'The hell with that!' Once I decided to go for a soap job and make a commitment to it, I got extremely lucky."- on why she got into soaps, Soap Opera Weekly, August 20, 1991