Soap Opera Quotes

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All My Children

Erica Kane: Adam, really. I know that you've been bored, but taking in Mary Smythe? I mean, couldn't you have just taken in a dog from the pound?

[danderson400]

A few from AW

Dr. Ramsey: "William Matthews, wilt thou have Melissa to be thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the Holy State of Matrimony? [...]"
Bill: "I will."
...
Melissa: "I, Melissa, take thee, William for my lawful husband."

Minister: "Walter Curtin, wilt thou have Lenore to be thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the Holy State of Matrimony? [...]"
Walter: "I will."
...
Minister: [TO LENORE] Repeat after me: I, Lenore, take thee, Walter, for my lawful husband."
Lenore: "I, Lenore, take thee, Walter, for my lawful husband."

Olive: “(SHE TURNS TO GO INTO THE ATRIUM AND SEES EVAN’S BODY. SHE STANDS STOCK STILL FOR A MOMENT, AND THEN SCREAMS AS SHE RUSHES TO HIM) Evan! Darling! (JOHN FOLLOWS HER INTO THE ATRIUM)”
John: “It was an accident!”
Olive: “(THROWING HERSELF OVER EVAN’S BODY) Oh, my darling. What has he done to you. (SHE KISSES EVAN’S FACE, AS JOHN STARES AT HER, INCOMPREHENDINGLY)”
John: “Olive?”
Olive: “(IGNORING HIM) Why didn’t you come to me like you promised?”
John: “(GOING TO HER) “What are you saying?”
Olive: “(STILL IGNORING JOHN. JOHN STARES AT HER, THEN STARTS TO BACK AWAY) I don’t want this house if you’re not in it! (SHE BRUSHES EVAN’S HAIR BACK. JOHN STUMBLES OVER SOMETHING AND OLIVE TURNS, STARTLED) How did this happen? (JOHN STARTS TO SPEAK, BUT CAN’T. OLIVE SEES THE GUN LYING BY EVAN’S SIDE) You killed him! (JOHN STARES AT HER, SHAKING HIS HEAD) You killed the only man who’s ever meant anything to me! (SHE TURNS BACK TO EVAN AS JOHN MOVES NUMBLY TOWARD HER. HE PUTS HIS HAND ON HER SHOULDER. SHE TURNS ON HIM, HSYTERICALLY.) Don’t touch me!(HE TAKES HIS HAND AWAY) Only Evan made it possible to bear you touching me! (JOHN SINKS DOWN ON THE SOFA) You’ve taken away the only reason I had for living! (SHE FLINGS OVER EVAN’S BODY, CARESSING IT) Darling, don’t leave me... please, I can’t live without you!”

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Y&R

That was Victor's doing. It was purely personal. Believe me, old moneybags is going to eat his words. The magazine is gonna do great, and beauty of nature will be left in the dust.

- Jack

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B&B

Jacqueline Payne Marone: I'm trying to save her the inevitable pain of being married to yet another man who is in love with her mother.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Jessica: Do you know what an evil, lying tramp Shawna is?
Rex: Yeah. That's why I like her.

One Life to Live

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Days Of Our Lives

Hope Brady: Wait, is that the Rex who is a genetically engineered human who was formerly an alien living in our garage?

Bo Brady : Yep.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Margaret Cochran #2: [after shooting Todd in the legs twice] Stop making me shoot you!

One Life to Live

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One Life To Live

Adam Chandler, Sr.: Talking to you would be a waste of my breath, David.

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Guiding Light

[Harley brings take-out food to Gus while he's at work at Spaulding]

Gus: Thank you. My favorite kind of food - the kind that sweats in the bag before you open it.

[scrapple]

Lucinda Walsh , at one of Lisa's weddings.

"oh my God, she's wearing white!".

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Bianca Montgomery: Shattered dreams are shattered dreams. Doesn't matter how or why. They're still lying in pieces on the ground.

[danderson400]

A few more from AW...

Missy: "Mother... Bill was... He..."
Liz: "[ALMOST A SHRIEK] What happened?"
Missy: "Mother... God... Bill was drowned... Mother, Bill's dead!"

Special Introduction by Announcer Bill Wolff: "'How to Survive a Marriage' will not be presented today so that we may bring you a special hour-long episode of Another World."(cue original AW theme) "And now, the special 10th Anniversary, one-hour broadcast of Another World."

Andrews: "Alice, do you take Steve as your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, in sickness and in health, as long as you both shall live?"
Alice: "I do."
Andrews: "And, Steven, do you take Alice as your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, in sickness and in health, as long as you both shall live?"
Steve: "I do."
Andrews: "For as much as Steve and Alice have promised to be faithful and true to each other before God and this company, I hereby pronounce them man and wife. Whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." "Now, you may kiss the bride, Mr. Frame."

Susan Sullivan: "Gentlemen, do you think we could have a little music?"(rag-time music is played accompanied by Bill Wolff's regular closing announcement)

Cindy: "You know, sometimes I tell your picture things I haven't told you..."
Russ: "What kind of things?"
Cindy: "Oh, what our lives will be like...the house we'll live in some day, what we'll name our children..."
Russ: "Darling." (HE HOLDS HER IN HIS ARMS)
Cindy: "I have these long conversations. I'm glad to say the picture doesn't tease me the way you do."
Russ: "What have you two decided to name our children?"
Cindy: "We can't make up our minds."
Russ: "There's lots of time, darling--"
Cindy: "I know. One step at a time, but I'm ready now for the first step."
Russ: "Oh, what's that?"
Cindy: "Leaving this hospital room and going to our home with a nurse in attendance."
Russ: "That's really up to Dr. Rogers."
Cindy: "Have you talked it over with him?"
Russ: "No..."
Cindy: "Please, call and ask him."
Russ: "I will."
Cindy: "Right now. We should have thought of that before. Please, Russ, call him before he goes home.."
Russ: "But, darling...All right, just don't get excited, please. I'll call him outside..." (HE KISSES HER AND LEAVES)
(FROM HERE ON TO THE END OF THE ACT, TAPE FOR REPLAY. CINDY PICKS UP THE PHOTO AND LOOKS AT IT)
Cindy: "Why didn't we think of it before? You've got to help me work these things out...you know..." (SHE PUTS THE PHOTO BACK ON THE NIGHT TABLE, BUT AS SHE DOES, SHE KNOCKS IT ON THE FLOOR) "Oh, dear.." (SHE HESITATES, THEN SLOWLY FOLDS BACK THE COVERS. SHE GETS OUT OF BED VERY QUIETLY AND REACHES FOR THE PHOTO, THEN PICKS IT UP, EVEN THOUGH SHE FEELS A SHARP, SUDDEN PAIN) "There we are..." (THEN SUDDENLY, SHE SWAYS BACK AND FORTH, CAUGHT IN UNBEARABLE PAIN). "Russ! Russ" (SHE LEANS AGAINST THE BED, AS RUSS AND ALICE ENTER HURRIEDLY) "Oh, Russ..."
Russ: "Cindy! What happened?"
Cindy: "Oh, Russ...you fell..." (SHE SWAYS AGAIN, AND HE CATCHES HER IN HIS ARMS. ALICE, IN THE BACKGROUND IS ON THE TELEPHONE)
Alice: "Emergency. Stat. Rm. 538."
Russ: "Darling, Oh, my darling."
Cindy: "Hold me, Russ...Oh, please, hold me. Where are you?"
Russ: "I'm here..." (SHE MAKES A DEEP SOUND IN HER THROAT AND THEN SINKS IN HIS ARMS. RUSS, LOOKING AT HER FACE, HOLDS HER TIGHTLY) "Cindy, Cindy. Oh no." (ALICE COMES UP BEHIND HIM AND PUTS HER ARM AROUND HIM) "It's all over, Alice...so fast..." (HE BEGINS TO SOB)

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Passions

Jessica Bennett: You can't give up on Charity, Miguel. Would Leonardo give up on Kate? Would Ross give up on Rachel? Would Bo give up on Hope?

[danderson400]

Lefty: "There's a nice car you got here, Lee..."
Lee: "Lefty you shouldn't be here."
Lefty: (SCOFFING) "Of course I have to be here--you know that! Where else have I got to go?"
Lee: "You're not here...."
Lefty: "Hey--Watch the road. You trying to kill me...?" (VOICE ECHOES)
Lee: (OVER ECHOES) "You shouldn't be here. I don't want you here."
Lefty: "Oh, yes you do."
Lee: (FRANTICALLY) "No, I don't want you here. You shouldn't be here. You don't belong here! I want you to get out of here!"
(AS CAR SKIDS AND LEE STRUGGLES TO CONTROL DRIVING LEFTY LAUGHS)
Lefty: (TAUNTING) "You know killing somebody isn't easy, is it? Not easy at all, is it Lee? But dead people keep coming back don't they Lee?"
Lee: (HYSTERICALLY) "Why? Why do you keep coming back?"
Lefty: [LEE CRIES, "NO" THROUGHOUT) "So you can kill me again. I thought you knew that. Oh, of course you knew that. I'll keep coming back and you'll keep killing me--and that's the way it's going to be....to no end." [LAUGHS] [ECHOES THROUGHOUT AS LEE LOSES CONTROL OF HER VEHICLE] "Kill me...kill me...." [ECHOES CEASE; THE CAR CRASHES].

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As The World Turns

Paul: That woman is unbelievable. She's awesome. She knows exactly what I want her to do, and she does it before I even ask her to do it.

Henry: I had a woman like that once. Once was all I could afford.