#soap

Blake looked around and gulped. He'd forgotten about the mess on the floor. Chamber pot shards, his shaving kit, a towel or two... "I... ah..." It seemed to him that it was far easier to lie for the sake of national security than it was to his older sister. "Is that a bar of soap stuck to the wall?" Penelope asked. "Um... yes, it appears to be. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#soap #humor

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#movies #problems #reality #soap-opera #truth

She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of passing any chemist’s or herb shop without going in to be seduced by some glass-stoppered bottle of something blue or green or orange or oily that was supposed to restore the natural balance of some vague substance she didn’t even know she was supposed to have in her pores. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#baths #females #nature

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#devoting #got #her #lady #life

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#australian #award #boomerang #i #i always

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

— Ruben Blades

#also #i #i remember #kid #mother

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#know #me #should #sitting #soapbox

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

— Josh Duhamel

#diminishing #discovered #get #going #great

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#auditions #city #commercials #days #did

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. ↗

— Omar Epps

#dollars #get #go #life #operas