#soap

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

— Kate O'Brien

#i #only #opera #sick #soap

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#agenda #beliefs #cinema #getting #i

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. ↗

— Don Rickles

#building #eddie #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #empire

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

— Dan Stevens

#dirty #most #opera #popular #seems

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. ↗

— Susan Sullivan

#doing #enough #get #got #hard

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

— Joyce Maynard

#i #i think #melodrama #myself #opera

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. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#audition #became #dad #extra #i

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#barely #certain #could #fact #factories

When a lack of white blood cells exposes the horizon of being, one has to make a choice. To cloister yourself away in a germ-free environment, alive but alone, or to embrace the woman you love and catch your death of cold at the marriage ceremony? What a great show. It’s inner-directed script was unmatched by any other soap opera. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#existentialism #immune-system #soap-operas #death

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded. ↗

— David Sedaris

#soap-operas #family