Soap Operas Quotes - Page 5

• Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

  Method Man

  Book, Eight, Years

  FaceBook post by Method Man from Aug 19, 2015

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• A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

  William Devane

  Missing You, Doe, Opera

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• Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

  Joe Lando

  Aggravation, Choices, Opera

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• I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

  Kevin Kline

  Stars, Stupid, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

  Sanford Meisner

  Religious, Thinking, Inspire

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• Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

  Michael Moorcock

  Character, Thinking, Unhappy Childhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Soap, Opera

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• I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pride, Anorexia, Television

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• I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Years, Play, Three

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• Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Thinking, Years, Three

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• It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

  Doug Davidson

  Silly, Opera, Soap

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• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

  Cam Gigandet

  Letting Go, Not Good Enough, World

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• I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

  Ashley Benson

  Opera, Soap, Our Lives

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  Famke Janssen

  Acting, Roles, Opera

  "Famke Janssen and Liam Neeson have the family holiday from hell in Taken 2". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. October 05, 2012.

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• All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Work Ethic, Opera

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• I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

  Jack Wagner

  Play, Opera, Soap

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.

  Michael Weatherly

  Jobs, Would Be, Opera

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• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

  Teddy Sears

  New York, Moving, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.

  Andy Cohen

  Fun, Thinking, Mind

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• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  Kassie DePaiva

  Believe, Careers, Opera

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• When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

  Nathan Fillion

  Years, Three, Opera

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Drama, Law, Games

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• Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

  Julian Fellowes

  Christmas, Character, Car

  "More Season 3 Conversation With ‘Downton Abbey’ Creator Julian Fellowes". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. February 19, 2013.

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• You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed, everything's dark and covered by blankets.

  Ragnar Tørnquist

  Sex, Dark, Bed

  "Fictional character: April Ryan". "The Longest Journey" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 1999.

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