Soap Operas Quotes

• 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

  Fake People, Real, Opera

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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

  Michael Portillo

  Death, Finals, Credit

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• 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.

  David Canary

  Hard Work, Intelligent, People

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• 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.

  Graham Parker

  Parent, Tvs, England

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• I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

  Bob Edwards

  Grandmother, Opera, Soap

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• I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

  Marian Keyes

  Jobs, Writing, Opera

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• I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Guy, Noodles, Slippers

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

  Paul Walker

  Guy, Slippers, Noodles

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• I'm not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.

  Roger Federer

  Guy, Wake Up, Slippers

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• I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Guy, Slippers, Noodles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

  Jason Kilar

  Guy, Slippers, Noodles

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• I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

  Billy Joel

  Guy, Pedestal, Slippers

  "Q&A WITH BILLY JOEL : 'They See Me as One of Them' : Washed Up? Not to Fans of the Singer's New Album and World Tour". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. December 11, 1993.

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• I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

  Jane Wagner

  Goal, Worry, Tunes

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• It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

  Amy Hill

  Special, Acting, Opera

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

  Molly Ivins

  Real, People, Use

  Molly Ivins (1992). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Vintage

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• 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).

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Emotional, Average, Games

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

  Dorothy Malone

  Stars, Night, Opera

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.

  Charlaine Harris

  Night, Humanity, Example

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.58, Penguin

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• Life is an X-rated soap opera.

  John Irving

  Opera, Soap, Life Is

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• Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.

  Bob Hope

  Baseball, Character, Kids

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• 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.

  Josh Duhamel

  Mean, Way, Soap

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• 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.

  Michael Weatherly

  Games, Culture, Fundamentals

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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

  Omar Epps

  People, Watches, Dollars

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• All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Work Ethic, Crafts

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• A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

  Northrop Frye

  Believe, People, Suffering

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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