Quotes About Television

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always wanted to be on a soap opera.

On a soap opera, you'll do an episode and a half a day, and in prime time television, you're hustling to get an episode done in eight days. That's a little bit frustrating sometimes. But there's also something exhilarating about it. It's kind of like live theater in a way, where you get one crack at it.

It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the difference in the quality of the project.

I started in this business on soap operas.

Having now been on three different soap operas was more than I could have hoped for. Then going on to doing a movie and being on prime time TV, to my own show on Netflix - I couldn't have dreamed of what this has snowballed into.

I was 11 and watching soap operas with my mom, and I thought it would be cool to be an actor. I thought soap operas was going to be the dream at the time - it's obviously now not the dream, but I think soap operas are really cool. Maybe I'll go back to that.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.

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

If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.