Quotes about Soap

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. Votes: 8

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Votes: 8

What is elegance? Soap and water! Votes: 6

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'. Votes: 6

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. Votes: 6

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap. Votes: 6

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. Votes: 6

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. Votes: 6

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. Votes: 6

He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds. Votes: 4

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Votes: 4

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. Votes: 4

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. Votes: 4

I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world. Votes: 4

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap. Votes: 4

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. Votes: 4

The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what? Votes: 4

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap. Votes: 4

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c. Votes: 4

The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap. Votes: 4

If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives. Votes: 4

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. Votes: 4

Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything. Votes: 3

Soap operas got nothing on my family history. Votes: 3

Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay. Votes: 3

You smell good." "It's called a shower. Soap, shampoo, water-" "Naked. I know the drill. Votes: 3

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around. Votes: 3

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. Votes: 3

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap. Votes: 3

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. Votes: 3

Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola Votes: 3

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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." Votes: 3

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Votes: 3

I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy. Votes: 3

You smell good, too,” said Patch It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.” Naked. I know the drill. Votes: 3

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army. Votes: 3

Soap wasn't invented until the Romans, who also invented interesting sex. (Since my editor informs me that a gardening book is not a proper venue for discussions of interesting sex, I will go into this topic in more detail when I write my private memoirs, 'A Petunia Named Desire'). Votes: 3

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera. Votes: 2

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair. Votes: 2

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap. Votes: 2

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. Votes: 2

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap. Votes: 2

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. Votes: 2

Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp. Votes: 2

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. Votes: 2

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. Votes: 2

I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo. Votes: 2

Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified. Votes: 2

People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness. Votes: 2

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. Votes: 2

Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.' Votes: 2

The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul. Votes: 1

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Votes: 1

The English think soap is civilization. Votes: 0

I am a living soap opera. Votes: 0

Life is an X-rated soap opera. Votes: 0

I'm clean and dope like heroin soap Votes: 0

I'm a plain soap kind of guy. Votes: 0

With soap, baptism is a good thing. Votes: 0

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes. Votes: 0

I started in this business on soap operas. Votes: 0

Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap. Votes: 0

Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Votes: 0

They're the ones inside a soap bubble. Not me. Votes: 0

A girl could lather up in soap like that. Votes: 0

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives. Votes: 0

You have to think about the WWE as soap operas. Votes: 0

There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap. Votes: 0

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera. Votes: 0

I intend to stay on her like hair on soap. Votes: 0

You smell like crap so I know you don't like soap. Votes: 0

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. Votes: 0

I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route. Votes: 0

The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days. Votes: 0

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap. Votes: 0

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings. Votes: 0

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera. Votes: 0

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap? Votes: 0

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me. Votes: 0

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera. Votes: 0

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] Votes: 0

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it. Votes: 0

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins. Votes: 0

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation. Votes: 0

My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world. Votes: 0

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies. Votes: 0

Gold can be loose & gain again... But same soap bubble never can be create again... Votes: 0

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup. Votes: 0

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive! Votes: 0

Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble! Votes: 0

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. Votes: 0

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances. Votes: 0

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7. Votes: 0

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy. Votes: 0

My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance. Votes: 0

Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap. Votes: 0

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. Votes: 0

So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap. Votes: 0

On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids? Votes: 0

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera. Votes: 0

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera. Votes: 0

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera. Votes: 0

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera. Votes: 0

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream. Votes: 0

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out. Votes: 0

All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! Votes: 0

I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York. Votes: 0

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. Votes: 0

My friend has hand soap that smells like coconut. It's nice. Unless your hands are dirty from coconuts. Votes: 0

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man. Votes: 0

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off Votes: 0

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy! Votes: 0

Her perfume or soap or whatever it was reminded him of sandalwood and something else. Oh, right...orgasms. Votes: 0

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make. Votes: 0

My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion. Votes: 0

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record. Votes: 0

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?" "I'm not implying. I'm saying it. Votes: 0

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. Votes: 0

Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you own all the components of soap on a rope except the soap. Votes: 0

Women are like bars of soap. After a while they lose their freshness, become worn and a bit hairy. Votes: 0

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth. Votes: 0

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths. Votes: 0

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it. Votes: 0

The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long. Votes: 0

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place. Votes: 0

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap. Votes: 0

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career. Votes: 0

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.' Votes: 0

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. Votes: 0

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby. Votes: 0

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits. Votes: 0

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. Votes: 0

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge. Votes: 0

So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap. Votes: 0

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap." Votes: 0

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it. Votes: 0

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood. Votes: 0

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular. Votes: 0

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera. Votes: 0

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. Votes: 0

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone. Votes: 0

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers. Votes: 0

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap. Votes: 0

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. Votes: 0

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future. Votes: 0

If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there? Votes: 0

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day. Votes: 0

He's clean," Ritchie announced. Chance wrinkled his nose with mild distaste. "Can't say the same about you. Really, man, soap is nothing to fear. Votes: 0

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap? Votes: 0

I'm turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers." "“ Sundown Votes: 0

In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect. Votes: 0

...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas... Votes: 0

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes. Votes: 0

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me. Votes: 0

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all. Votes: 0

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies. Votes: 0

Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr.""Like a tavern? Like a soap?""My father's name is Barr.""Oh. And I love it! Votes: 0

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence. Votes: 0

To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas. Votes: 0

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap Votes: 0

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that. Votes: 0

I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love. Votes: 0

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles. Votes: 0

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap. Votes: 0

Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that. Votes: 0

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I'm not sure that it would help; so you should just try to THINK. Votes: 0

If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough. Votes: 0

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV. Votes: 0

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed, everything's dark and covered by blankets. Votes: 0

You're just being cryptic again. It's like soap opera sex. Lots of boring dialogue and when they finally do go to bed, everything's dark and covered by blankets. Votes: 0

You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job. Votes: 0

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find. Votes: 0

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. Votes: 0

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap. Votes: 0

It irritates me so much the way people talk about soaps because it is far more difficult working on a soap than it is on a big studio film. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I'm a bit of a potty mouth. My dad used to wash out my mouth with soap, but that was just to get rid of any traces of his DNA. Votes: 0

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show. Votes: 0

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? Votes: 0

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty. Votes: 0

Also, of course, I need my Dove soap. Of course I need my cocoa butter. I need my Listerine. I need the white Jockey tees. They are really soft and comfortable. Votes: 0

Leigh [ Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but my agents talked me into it and said it's nice, steady work. Votes: 0

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff. Votes: 0

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet. Votes: 0

'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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it. Votes: 0

Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error. Votes: 0

There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world, which are a whole different section of fans. They're so cool. Votes: 0

I don't use no cologne, none of that. I just use cocoa butter and that's it. Everything I need is natural besides going to the shower and taking soap and shampoo and conditioner. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television. Votes: 0

I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe. Votes: 0

It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding. Votes: 0

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap. Votes: 0

I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out Votes: 0

In Cincy, we're told how much Gatorade we could take home. In Houston, we get what we request. You get soap and deodorant at your request. You don't have a roommate on road trips. Votes: 0

I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable. Votes: 0

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. Votes: 0

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising. Votes: 0

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source. Votes: 0