Daytime TV Quotes

'The Talk' is one of the most diverse shows in daytime.

Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days a week. Before there was Joan Collins's Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan on 'Dynasty,' there was Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery on 'All My Children.'

I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

Pointless' - I think it's probably the greatest daytime TV show that has ever existed.

I wouldn't want to do a 'Maury Povich' show. Baby daddy! Who's your daddy? Who's your mama? I wouldn't want to do that kind of show.

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

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.

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

I tried to take advantage of what I could in Philly. But when it was time to move on, I moved on to New York. There, I booked a series regular role on 'One Life To Live.' I played a character named Deanna Forbes. She was my first big job. It was on daytime TV. And it was a great opportunity until that show got canceled.

When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, 'A daytime soap? It'll kill your career!' Now they'd trade places with me in a heartbeat.

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

I was a big fan of 'Days of Our Lives' growing up.

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

My first time on camera was 'One Life to Live.' I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It's theater onscreen.

In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.

The landscape of daytime has changed. I'm not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.

You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.

We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.

Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.