John Irving Quotes

I am a living soap opera.

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

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

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

Drama seems to kind of surround me.

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

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

I'm so pumped about joining 'Y&R' - I watch it all the time and can't wait to get in there and get my hands dirty!

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

You can't discuss Macau in any logical conversation. It will distort any reality.

I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.

Everyone wants drama. Everyone is living for drama.

Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

Drama sells more than the truth.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.