Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Alison Sweeney
Alison Sweeney

I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.

Amanda Donohoe
Amanda Donohoe

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.

Amanda Donohoe
Amanda Donohoe

That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.

Amrita Rao
Amrita Rao

Daily soaps are unpredictable, and one can't predict when the track changes.

Andrea Navedo
Andrea Navedo

When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn't have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize my lines in order to film efficiently the next day. But with 'Jane The Virgin,' the writing is strong, and everything is intentional.

Anthony Geary
Anthony Geary

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

Billy Magnussen
Billy Magnussen

Doing the soaps, every day it's constant training. Dealing with camera angles, the other people - it's great training.

Bradley Walsh
Bradley Walsh

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.

Charles Shaughnessy
Charles Shaughnessy

Soaps are great. You learn to work very fast - some say superficially, but that's not really true. You do some very serious character work. I've never had any feelings about a stigma attached to it, and nowadays there seems to be less snobbery about what you do. More and more big names are doing TV and commercials and voiceovers.