“I remember the first day I met Susan. I said, ‘Mother!’ and she said, ‘Don´t call me mother!’ That sort of set the tone. She´s got a great heart and a great skill, and when she barks about something, she´s usually right.”

Q: ”How do you like working with Susan Flannery (Stephanie) and John McCook (Eric)”?
”Susan is a trip. The first time I met her was in a photo session. We had just started the show. I came in to the makeup room where Susan was getting made up and I said, "Hey Mom." She turned to me and yelled, "Don't call me that!" in her gruffest and most caustic way, and I went "Wow. Okay." There begins our relationship! Susan is a wonderful and amazing woman who is talented in her vision of the way things should be in a scene. John has always been the court jester on the set, the one that makes us all laugh. He is another stability factor. I am very thankful to have him as my dad in all of this.”

“Offscreen, John is extremely funny, extremely personable, fun to be around. He's much younger than he appears as Eric Forrester. He's not the patriarch that he has to be on B&B. He's like a little kid in a grown man's body. Lots of fun. We have fun both on the set and off”.

Q: “How is Susan to work with; she is a great actress”!
Ronn: “Susan is a great actor. She has been a huge influence and inspiration to me professionally. She is wonderful to work with, she is a mentor to me, she is a grounding element for the whole cast and we are very lucky to have her there. I hope to some day work with Susan on other projects. She is also quite a capable director”.

“When Ridge married Caroline I remember a silly little thing that happened with Susan Flannery during one of the breaks. Susan had borrowed a cellular phone and it was tiny. She had never used one before, and instead of holding it up, the way you would a phone, Susan would talk into it like it was a walkie-talkie and then hold it up to her ear. I watched her go back and forth with this, and I thought to myself, She’s got to be kidding. So I went up to her and said, “Susan, what are you doing?” and she answered, “Well, this thing is so tiny, it’s the only way I can talk!” I told her, “Susan, you just hold the phone up to your ear and the person on the other end of the line can hear you.” When I showed her the tiny hole that was the microphone, she looked up at me and laughed, and then we both almost fell on the ground laughing.”