Character Quote by Jasmin Bhasin

If I'm doing a daily soap I would like my character to drive the narrative.

— Rupali Ganguly

In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're…

— Robert Greenblatt

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…

— Kelvin Fletcher

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

— Joan Van Ark

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

— Javed Jaffrey

I am a living soap opera.

— Virginia Graham

You can't ever get sick on a soap: we work really long hours, the show is on TV five nights a week, and it's…

— Samara Weaving

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you…

— Sarah Hyland

Every show has to end one day. It's part and parcel of a soap.

— Sara Khan

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

— Kelvin Fletcher

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

— Paula Malcomson

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold