Quotes About Drama

Life, especially life on soaps, sometimes needs a reality check.

Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

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

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.

Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.

I have great respect for daytime drama. I love the branding. I love the style. What can I say? I love good soap!

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

Its really important to have cooperative co-actors when you're working and specially when you are doing a daily soap.

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

Getting trouble is always a problem when you are young and in a soap.

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

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

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

The amazing thing with a soap is every day you're challenged, the amount of storylines we go through, the amount of emotions you get to play is really challenging.

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

People love a good scandal. We love a good freakin' scandal and a good soap opera.

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

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