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I want to do rock operas.
Soap operas are like acting boot camps.
I started in this business on soap operas.
You have to think about the WWE as soap operas.
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world.
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
I don't like soap operas. But I like to watch movies. My favourite is 'Annapolis.'
Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.
It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials.
I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.
We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.
Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.
I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.
My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.
Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.
I think Mozart's operas 'The Marriage of Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni' are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.
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.
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I got to direct a movie involving three of my favorite things in the world: space operas, Marvel superheroes and raccoons.
In a time when directors did not fear composers with a strong voice, Morricone wrote scores like operas or symphonies, with passion, scope, bravura and intelligence.
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.
Soap operas are like TV boot camp. You have to be able to self-direct, learn a ton of dialogue in a short amount of time, and deliver a performance in one or two takes.
I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas.
Who needs soap operas now when we have social media timelines? Now you can get a similar drama fix by just paying attention to your friends and family members' Facebook pages.
I've done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that 'Twin Peaks' has.
If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.