Soap Quotes - Page 9

• Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.

  Ernst Haas

  Grateful, Secret, Trying

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• The thing I love about soaps, and from what I know about this is its run in a very old school way, which I like, since I have been doing this entertainment thing for a long time. But I see that there are some new barriers that they can break.

  Darius McCrary

  Running, School, Long

  "The Darius McCrary Interview - The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• [My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

  Rex Smith

  Father, Eye, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.

  Virginia Madsen

  New York, Inspiration, Illinois

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

  Bruce Campbell

  Character, Opera, Littles

  "Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless Talk Burn Notice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

  Robertson Davies

  Hands, Restoration, Dirt

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• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  Patrick Duffy

  Son, College, Done

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• I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.

  Paul Wesley

  Class, Self, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

  Edward Abbey

  Speaks Out, Shopping, Rivers

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.172, Macmillan

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• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  Nancy Lublin

  Running, Wall, Sneakers

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

  Eric Braeden

  Loyalty, Thinking, Alive

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• Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When the artist produces something he or she relates to it with the eye of an art historian/critic. I have the feeling that when I am working it is more like working with soap opera or glamour. It is emotional and not art criticism or history of art.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Art, Eye, Emotional

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I usually go to Lush for hair products. I had no idea that this existed, but they have a shampoo rock, and it looks like a bar of soap, and I was tripping out when they told me it was a shampoo, so that's pretty sweet.

  Christian Serratos

  Sweet, Hair, Rocks

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

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• During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Moving, Sunset

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• Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

  Kiersten White

  Opera, My Family, Family History

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• That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

  Paul Fleischman

  Home, Garden, Circles

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• A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

  Northrop Frye

  Believe, People, Suffering

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green.

  Gunvor Hofmo

  Winter, White, Long

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• People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas

  Omar Epps

  People, Watches, Dollars

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• The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you're bathing - that's it!

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Workout, Long, Biceps

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• Granted, not really a joke, but how often do you get a mic in your hand? You know? So. I am sorry but don't anybody trip on my soap box on the way out. Don't anybody trip over that. And the chip on my shoulder's a little heavy. I have back problems now.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Sorry, Hands, Littles

  "Janeane Garofalo". TV Special, August 23, 1997.

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• I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

  Michael Zaslow

  Pay, Bills, Kodak

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• I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

  Mark Twain

  Glasses, Hypocrisy, Giving

  R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain (2013). “Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers”, p.178, Univ of California Press

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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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• One of the roles I hold really close to my heart is a small "under-five" role I did on "The Young and the Restless." I think I did about four episodes and it meant so much to me, simply because it was my mom's all-time favorite soap.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Mom, Heart, Thinking

  "'Middle of Nowhere' Star Emayatzy Corinealdi on Her Breakout Leading Role". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. September 11, 2012.

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