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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”

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Author:Omar Epps

“Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.”

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Author:Dorothy Malone

“I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.”

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Author:Parker Posey

“I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like”

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Author:Parker Posey

“Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“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.”

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Author:Julian Fellowes

“I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.”

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Author:Ruben Blades

“Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.”

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Author:Dan Stevens

“I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would affect literally every Minnesotan in some way or another, if not all Americans in some way or another....The local media sent no one out to cover my testimony....Well, then a couple weeks later, I go out to do The Young and the Restless, the TV soap opera, and everybody sends crews. We had to move them into a room in three different sections or three shifts of them because there was so much media covering that.”

“'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.”

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Author:Timothy Dalton

“My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.”

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Author:Claire Danes

“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.”

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Author:Method Man

“Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.”

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Author:Dan Stevens

“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.”

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Author:William Devane

“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.”

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Author:Joe Lando

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Kline

“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.”

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Author:Sanford Meisner

“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.”

“I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.”

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Author:Paul Walker

“My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.”

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Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.”

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Author:Josh Duhamel

“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”

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Book:From earth to heaven

Source: From earth to heaven

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

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Author:Jencarlos Canela

“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.”

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Author:S. J. Perelman

“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.”

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Author:Graham Parker

“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.”

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Author:Jeremy Bulloch

“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.”

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Author:Jeremy Bulloch

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

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Author:Doug Davidson

“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.”

Ifs World Enough Letting Go Good Enough Opera Embarrassing Soap Not Good Enough Soap Operas Bashers

Author:Cam Gigandet

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

Our Lives Opera Soap Soap Operas

Author:Ashley Benson

“To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.”

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Author:David Canary

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

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Author:Famke Janssen

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