Chocolate Eyes

Quotes

About Sonny & Brenda:

In the past, Sonny and Brenda's affairs of the heart were so heated that they needed only to feel each others presence to know that the other was near. The same will hold true this time around.
-Soap Opera Update -7/02 on Vanessa's return to General Hospital after Brenda's death in '98  

Why is Brenda Sonny's true love?-Soap Opera News
Because she fights him and stands up to him -Maurice Benard

Sonny and Brenda are definitely soulmates -Vanessa Marcil

They were a great couple because they were so dysfunctional - and they did love each other greatly -Maurice Benard

"The sheer romantic chemistry between them is irresistible," Guza says of Sonny and Brenda. "He (Sonny) just cannot fight it.
-Soaps In Depth -9/02

"Everyone likes to watch a car wreck. I mean, you've got two very dysfunctional people who deep down, in a way, are like Lucy and Desi. They truly, deeply love each other but can't be with each other- but you still want to watch them try. That's the appeal." -Maurice Benard

Sonny will always be in love with Brenda -Maurice Benard

"It's unexplainable sometimes why two people are meant to be together, why they capture each other's hearts." -Vanessa Marcil

"When Brenda and Sonny broke up, they became more popular," marvels Benard. "Its just amazing, the loyalty the fans have." --SOD 6/98

Vanessa on Maurice:

"Working with Maurice has been a great experience, I've learned a great deal from him. He makes me feel safe as an actor." 

Vanessa Marcil has been having alot of fun working with Maurice."He's the funniest person on the planet", says Marcil. He is always joking around, but it gets serious as soon as the scene starts. Before taping he is so funny though she says. She starts cracking up sometimes in their scenes together and they'll keep the camera on him a little longer, so they don't have to do the scene over. --SOD, 1/03

"Maurice taught me a long time ago to just be in the moment," she says, sounding not unlike the showbiz veteran that she's become. "So that's what I do when I'm working." --SID 9/02

"The truth is, I think my heart got a little broken with Maurice not winning an Emmy. Maurice has not only taught me, but generously taught a lot of actors how to act. I really believe that he broke barriers in daytime acting and that he and Tony Geary are the best actors on daytime. The fact that Maurice doesn’t have an Emmy makes the rebellious little kid in me go, “Well, who wants one then?!” --SID 2/03


Soaps In Depth: Maurice Benard (Sonny) wasn't sure he was going to win... but he was sure about you.

Vanessa: "That's what he told me. I told him he was crazy. (Laughs.) When I came back on the show for those six months, he went on and on about how proud he was of me. He said, "If you're going to come back, you want to come in and take no prisoners." Maurice has always been kind of a father figure to me. I look up to him and admire him. To see that he felt so proud of me meant a lot to me. We worked so hard together for so long. For us to finally win after almost 10 years -and to win it together- it was a very special moment." -SID Aug. '03

Maurice on Vanessa:

"There was something about working with Vanessa that was intangible - you could just feel it in every scene. There was a kind of energy there. She's a real fireball and I miss her, but perhaps she'll return and we can go at each other again." --SOD

On Vanessa's return: Benard knows that even though Marcil has been gone for four years, many fans still want Sonny and Brenda together. "When I go on appearances, you mention Sonny and Brenda and people go crazy," he relates. "To have her is an added benefit. She's talented, she's popular, she's fun to work with. I haven't been this excited in years." SOW 8/02

"Vanessa has become such a wonderful actress. She's always been a star in her own right, but she's a wonderful actress and works hard at it. She's feisty and we're similar in a lot of ways, especially as far as that's concerned. So there is always tension between us, and that tension is made for good acting."

"There's a lot going on in her eyes."-- SOD

"I'll miss working with Vanessa because when you've got somebody that can do what she does, it makes the work fun. I get along with her. She's a nice person. I've always felt like I was a big brother to her. It's been a pleasure." --2/03

"Vanessa and I have always had a connection," observed Maurice Benard (Sonny), with his leading lady. "It was there for the first scene. It never ended and just kept going and going." --3/03, SID (Maurice at Vanessa's going away party)

Maurice on Vanessa winning the emmy the same night he did: "I told her that I believed that she was going to win," says Benard, whose words proved to be prophetic. "I truly did believe it. I knew she had the tape and the acting ability. It's fantastic that she won. It's well deserved; she busted her ass. When somebody leaves and comes back and is much better, that's a lot of hard work." --SOD '03