Top 242 Soap Quotes

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

When TV came, it was a great medium and then daily soaps came in and ruined the quality of the work we were doing.

One thing just led to another, and today, here I am, acting in a daily soap, and I am just loving it.

At the end of the day, I make sure to remove my makeup. I also drink a lot of water and use a good soap.

I never learned music. I’m quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England. It was very inspiring for me, I’d done all this traveling around, I came back living with my parents, everyone around me was like they’re living in a soap opera.

I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, ‘That’s it. That’s it. You’ve sunk too far!’

I don’t like reality shows and have never watched them, but I’m addicted to ‘Real Housewives’ because it’s authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

‘Gone With The Wind’ is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell’s book and watch the film again; it’s a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world.

It’s a great counter to doing the soap because it’s a comedy. It’s real physical comedy.

I remember the first time I was an extra on a soap I was screaming I was so excited.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

I don’t slot genres according to soap, historical, mytho and crime. For me, the most important thing is my role.

The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it’s a three-camera setup. There’s a master and then there’s two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don’t re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.

Doing the soaps, every day it’s constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people – it’s great training.

Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.

I look back at that time fondly. It’s something I never thought I’d get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden – they’re legends in their own lifetimes aren’t they?

That’s the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.

If you do TV, sign a proper daily soap, then you won’t be able to do anything.

My morning routine varies by how much time I have. In the winter, I like to take baths, but in the summer, I prefer a good shower with some soap and then maybe some moisturizer afterward. I use D.R. Harris and Geo. F. Trumper products, which we also stock at our shops in Paris and Antwerp.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

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

My grandmother will watch any episode of a show I’m on, but she watches her soap operas every day. When I was on ‘The Bold and the Beautiful,’ you would have thought I had won an Oscar. She told everybody at church that I was on her favorite soap.

If you stare at suds, you’ll go crazy. But in soap suds, you’ll find bubble cubes and many other forms. I just take those things, magnify them and sometimes blow smoke inside it so you can see it better.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it’s such a great soap box.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan – never imagined I’d be in a soap opera.

I used to love those little cute bottles of amenities in the hotel room. And while the soap, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion may smell great, they waste an incredible amount of plastic and space in your luggage.

Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

Our neighbors who have fallen on hard times can use basic sanitary items, such as soap, socks and undergarments; when we go shopping for ourselves, how about adding an extra item for someone in need?

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

I don’t like soap operas. But I like to watch movies. My favourite is ‘Annapolis.’

Of course it worries you as an actress to stay away from projects. I was approached for many TV soaps as well as reality shows. But, to stay away from work was my decision, and I’d glad to be part of such an interesting and unique concept like ‘Ghar Jamai.’ I am happy that I am playing a role that is so relatable.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences – beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

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

If you’ve ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, ‘What Teachers Make,’ is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, ‘Let me tell you what really makes me angry.’

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don’t see a film actor going to do a soap.

My mom would always over decorate the house to the point where she’d switch like soap dispensers and all the towels. We would blow fuses in our house all the time because we have too many lights going on and I just feel like we did Christmas right around the Bristowe residence.

Every job you have, there are days that are more difficult than others. I worked on a daytime soap opera, where the volume at which you’re producing this medium is incredible.

Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.

I started in this business on soap operas.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

It was the late ’70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

I have great respect for daytime drama. I love the branding. I love the style. What can I say? I love good soap!

I remember I had a low point when I was working on a soap opera, ‘General Hospital,’ five years ago. It was my first real job, and it was so overwhelming. You would work five days a week and have to learn sometimes up to 30 pages of new dialogue a night, then have one take to shoot it all, the next day.

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

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.

Having the games on TV, I’ve always believed it’s like watching a soap opera – fans can’t wait for the next episode.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

I was one of the lucky people who found what I loved at a really young age. When I was 16, I got my first job in a Portuguese soap opera, and I realized how much I really loved it.

Privately, we always called ‘Hill Street’ ‘Cop Soap.’

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

I don’t know, a lot of people go crazy about ‘Breaking Bad,’ but I don’t like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like ‘The Wire.’ It’s more about the state of things; it’s not about the narrative of a person.