I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.
I’ve always said, I prefer the opera to the soap – those extreme characters and circumstances.
I was very lucky with ‘Soap’ and ‘Who’s the Boss,’ which was great fun, and then went on ‘Coach’ and ‘Everybody Loves Raymond.’ I’ve been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
I wash my face with soap and water. I use whatever I have. I will even wash my hair with the hotel shampoo, so I don’t use anything special. I try to keep it simple.
I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!
Honestly, soaps are great training. You’re doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I built my foundation for showing up and being professional.
You’ve got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.
The amazing thing with a soap is every day you’re challenged, the amount of storylines we go through, the amount of emotions you get to play is really challenging.
I’ve been to so many dos and presentation dinners and TV shows. I’ve been among all the top stars – soap stars, people from music – it’s been brilliant. But I’ve kept my feet on the ground.
I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world. I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They’re so cool. When people are fanatical about something, it’s contagious.
If we can survive being married and working on a soap together, commuting back and forth when we lived in New Jersey, and we didn’t get divorced then, we’re never gonna get divorced.
I’d love to be an old actress and still be in a soap.
I was on the soap opera ‘Days of our Lives.’
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.
Life goes on, and I’m moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
Sometimes it’s necessary for soaps to hang on to an audience by sensationalizing, but it’s a beast I don’t understand any more, an art form that has fostered extraordinary talent. It’s a great arena to learn your craft before you move on.
Daily soaps are unpredictable, and one can’t predict when the track changes.
The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn’t have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize my lines in order to film efficiently the next day. But with ‘Jane The Virgin,’ the writing is strong, and everything is intentional.
Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of their work if you’ve been in one. You have to rise above such ludicrous prejudice.
When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap.
I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in the light, don’t turn too far upstage – that’s all it is.
The soap opera was so long ago – the thing about soap operas, and there’s something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don’t want to say it’s a training ground; it really isn’t, but what it does teach you is discipline.
If you look at the Karamazov Brothers on TV, they’re really small and the heart is taken out of their act. That’s true for most variety acts. I’m an exception. When the camera comes in close and looks at those soap bubbles, you can really see what bubbles do.
It’s funny in the U.K., where I’m not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I’m not a real actor because they’ve never seen me in ‘Home and Away’ or ‘Neighbours.’
So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I’d graduated Julliard and done some theater. I’ve done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little ‘E.R.’ back when it was on, and a pilot for ‘Cold Case.’
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.
Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
Think ‘Game of Thrones.’ In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn’t really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it’s structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.
I made films for soaps and I was the Coca-Cola girl for England. I did a lot popular films, too.
Films are fun, and I want to do comic roles. Daily soaps are interesting, too, but the travel to and from the sets takes a toll.
In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard ‘General Hospital’ fan from when I was nine to 25.
There’s a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it’s never horrible. I’m not a soap villain who gets spat at.
My dad had a good sense about merchandising, and I appeared in all kinds of products from pencil boxes and soap to suits and caps.
The lockdown has affected all the artistes, especially the daily soap artists and the new faces of the television industry.
We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That’s the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
I keep getting many offers for TV soap operas, and strangely a lot of them are mythological. None seem to be interesting enough or have the budgets that would convince me to accept them.
I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that’s… sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it’s sort of hard sometimes then to get out.
People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.
‘Bleak House’ is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.
We’ve all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved ‘Guiding Light’ in 2009, and ‘One Life to Live’ was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.
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.
It’s an electrical network, isn’t it? It’s molecules in space… and they’re linked to each other electrically. Which is to say, one end of a soap molecule is attracted to a nearby water molecule electrically. The bubble is this network. The whole thing is inter-dependent.
I won’t say I’ll never go back to a soap because an actor’s life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won’t ring for a month, even a year.
You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.
It’s much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.
‘Criminal Intent’ scripts are very good. Like others involved in ‘Law & Order’ stuff, I’ve come to appreciate the lack of ‘soap,’ if you will. The story dominates. You don’t spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.
I’ve been on soaps.
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.
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
I’ve been told if you’re an actress you can’t sing, if you’re a dancer you can’t act, you can’t do theatre and be respected if you’ve done a TV soap, you can’t have a No. 1 record. All these different things they’ve told me I can’t do, but I wanted to do them, so I’ve done them.
When you play a daily soap character that character lives with you for a really long time.
I have acted in over 50 films and 15 daily soaps, but the thrill I feel while performing for my home audience is unparalleled.
I was a regular on ‘Holby City,’ and I did daytime; that’s how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas.
Getting trouble is always a problem when you are young and in a soap.
For actors coming out of long-running soaps, it’s really important to have a little break from the screen and look for roles that are removed from the ones they have played.
I think what we’ve been able to do with ‘Longmire’ is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it’s a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
They’re getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
