It frustrates me that Britain can’t make something like ‘CSI’ or ‘The Sopranos’. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
Who needs soap operas now when we have social media timelines? Now you can get a similar drama fix by just paying attention to your friends and family members’ Facebook pages.
Soap operas are like TV boot camp. You have to be able to self-direct, learn a ton of dialogue in a short amount of time, and deliver a performance in one or two takes.
My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China – I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.
Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for a popular soap brand years ago. I was paid a huge amount of money for a mere 30 seconds of screen presence. After that, ads have been a regular feature in my career.
You can’t ever get sick on a soap: we work really long hours, the show is on TV five nights a week, and it’s random and chaotic.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I’m not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
I don’t watch daily soap. I’ve never seen my shows as well except for the scenes in which I really want to improve something or correct something.
On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
Did you know you’re supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ twice?
People love a good scandal. We love a good freakin’ scandal and a good soap opera.
There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I get the feeling of selling soaps.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but ‘Downton’ isn’t. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it’s like a soap written by a poet.
You know what TV is? It’s 22 minutes of selling soap.
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
Sometimes on a soap, it can become about all this other stuff – the party circuit, reality shows – but I gravitated towards people who kept it all about the work.
The only thing that I travel with is an Ole Henriksen facial cleanser, something that my skin is used to avoid using different soaps at different hotels all the time, and Givenchy Man Pro-Energizing Massive Moisturizer. I usually keep my hair pretty short, too, so I don’t require a lot of stuff.
Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, ‘My detergent doesn’t have the harsh chemicals others do.’ The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.
I think hosting is a far better option than acting in soaps as one feels much more responsible for the show.
I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
I think audiences were somewhere fed up with watching the same Saas-Bahu soaps all the time. I’ve been part of one of them.
I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
‘Revenge’ is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like ‘Dallas,’ ‘Dynasty’ and ‘Falcon Crest.’ Yet there’s no wink-wink camp.
Even before Bigg Boss,’ I have been doing a daily soap and that made me popular and got me the reality show.
‘Buncha Losers’ comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre’s ‘No Exit,’ but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
When you’re in a soap, it’s fantastic, and I’m really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.
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.’
I don’t have time to spare for a daily soap; it needs commitment.
I started with commercials – for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called ‘Satellite’ that did well in festivals.
Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can’t resolve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
With soap and hand sanitizer in high demand, many Americans will continue with their germ-fighting habits after coronavirus. They will wash their hands more frequently and implement ‘social distancing’ on a regular basis, particularly during flu and cold season.
When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.
A beautiful soap left in the guest bathroom, some fresh flowers by the bed, or a small gift of chocolates in their room will make anyone feel welcome.
They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.
It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials.
I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love.
I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.
I don’t think I have the power to do more mythological shows, but I would love to if it’s like a finite series. But doing that as a daily soap is not easy.
Deep down, I’m a small-town girl who has it drilled in her DNA to grow up, marry, have kids, settle down. Maybe I will knock the same theory in my kids’ heads, too. I’m also liberal, a political enthusiast, a bookworm, and the least bit ambitious to pull off a soap drama queen act.
When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it’s that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline.
Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called ‘Carbolic Soap.’ One was a cop film called ‘Dead Right.’ And the other was called ‘A Fistful Of Fingers.’
‘Shakti’ is not a run-of-the-mill daily soap.
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.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
It’s been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and now being a series regular on ‘Homeland.’
I’ve done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that ‘Twin Peaks’ has.
My father raised us like… we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, ‘Oh that fat person, or this person,’ he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren’t allowed to look at people like that.
The one thing that always drove me crazy, especially on soaps, was when someone would have something they were hiding, and then six months later, they were still holding onto that secret, and the world has come to a complete, total end as a result of it. If they’d only just confessed!
‘Teachers’ is in no way a realistic soap; we’re not trying to do that, which is why we never do ‘issues.’
I was like, ‘Welcome to the world of soap operas! Clothes off and in the bed!’ I thought that’s how it was going to become every day Everything just moved so fast so I really wasn’t seasoned to that.
I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.
Bubbles are just a little liquid soap and a breath of air.
I did Palmolive and Monsavon, which is two soap films, and you can’t do two at the same time. I was underage, see, so I didn’t really know. I didn’t realize that you’re not supposed to do two soap films at the same time. Because on one side of the Champs-Elysees there was Monsavon, and on the other there was Palmolive.
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. I thought, ‘Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!’
