Quotes About Opportunity

I think it's quite limiting to do a soap.

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

One thing just led to another, and today, here I am, acting in a daily soap, and I am just loving it.

I don't think I have the power to do more mythological shows, but I would love to if it's like a finite series. But doing that as a daily soap is not easy.

There are billions of people in the world who deserve the better quality of life that products such as soap, shampoo, and clean drinking water can provide.

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

For actors coming out of long-running soaps, it's really important to have a little break from the screen and look for roles that are removed from the ones they have played.

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

I won't say I'll never go back to a soap because an actor's life is so precarious. You can have the most wonderful patch where everyone wants to work with you, and in the blink of an eye the phone won't ring for a month, even a year.

I remember the first time I was an extra on a soap I was screaming I was so excited.

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 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.

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.

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'

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.

Soap operas were my first professional experiences, and I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

I see I'm changing the game and opening doors for others, from my beginning from the east end of London. It's not a sob story; it made me the person I am today. It's seeing kids from any area or background you're from. There's a chance; you can make it.

I played soccer in college, at this little school in North Carolina called Campbell. It was the only place in the world where they would offer to pay for everything.

Hopefully we will see a lot of women doing sport and especially soccer, because I love soccer.

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.