Special characters within Actionscript

Ok so i’ve searched through the forums and only found hints on special characters when loading text from an external source like mysql or php, however my problem seems different because I can’t get those solutions to work. I simply want to add quotes around a portion of text that is in the actionscript being loaded with a createTextField. If i use the Qoutes themselves they interfere by breaking up the text since the loaded text is specified by “whatever the text is”;
and I tried things like &qout; %22 and " but none of them read correctly. I also tried adding the
System.useCodePage=true;
script but wasn’t quite sure where to pt it but no matter where I did try it didn’t seem to work

hopes this makes sense

also for some reason I can’t get multiline=true; to work and am having to use
for every line break. Exhausting when formatting many paragraphs of text. any hints on either would be greatly appreciated
Cheers!
erok