Top 1200 Soap Opera Quotes & Sayings

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'.

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.

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

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.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the average primate, who instead invents emotional games (soap opera and grand opera dramatics).

WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.

My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

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!'

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

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

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

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

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

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!

I am a living soap opera.

My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.

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.

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.

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

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

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 on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife.

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

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

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.

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

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.

The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were gathered around watching soap operas. That was the escapism, the show that was giving you something you couldn't have. Now, you go into any sorority house, there are 50 to 100 girls piled in watching The Bachelor. We are the modern-day soap opera.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

My first time on camera was 'One Life to Live.' I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It's theater onscreen.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

'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.

I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was in a Latin soap opera - where are you gonna go with a nice guy in a Latin soap opera?

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.

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.

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

I've always wanted to be on a soap opera.

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.

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

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

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

I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

That's why we began calling it the daily soap opera, or it's just the place on radio and TV where Democrat Party agenda is advanced. But it isn't media.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

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