Quotes About Television

I joined 'Hollyoaks' because in the long-term, I thought it's good money, it's good profile, and everything happens in soaps!

It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

No character in a soap is indispensable.

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!

I've had a couple of storylines in the past that have never been done by a soap before, which is nice.

When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap.

If you do TV, sign a proper daily soap, then you won't be able to do anything.

Even before Bigg Boss,' I have been doing a daily soap and that made me popular and got me the reality show.

I'm not that keen to do a daily soap, but I'm always ready for reality soaps.

Television takes an actor to each and every home, but the life of a television actor is only as long as the soap runs.

I'd love to be an old actress and still be in a soap.

When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of shooting. So an actor being seen on a show airing four days a week and being telecast thrice a day comes along with a baggage of the character.

I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up.

I think hosting is a far better option than acting in soaps as one feels much more responsible for the show.

When TV came, it was a great medium and then daily soaps came in and ruined the quality of the work we were doing.

I think audiences were somewhere fed up with watching the same Saas-Bahu soaps all the time. I've been part of one of them.

I don't see myself doing daily soaps.

I've been on soaps.

I think that the way forward now is more schemes and much more disabled people on TV: in sitcoms, in soaps. A disabled person reading the news would be the dream.

I don't want to get into the daily soap drama.

One of my dreams growing up was to be in a soap.

You know what TV is? It's 22 minutes of selling soap.

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