Telenovelas Quotes

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.

The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

Soap operas have become sex operas.

When I was young, always in Serbia there were some telenovelas on television, Spanish language. Then you listen, listen, listen, you watch one series, and then you can understand.

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

I do more films than television, and in Mexico, they are more situational comedies - not the typical telenovela.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

Although telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't. I had to put on so much makeup and wear a push-up bra and have huge hair with blond highlights. I was falling into a mentality where "more" was more beautiful.

Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.

A director once told me, "You need to act like you're on mute and speak as though the viewer is in the other room doing the dishes." You become a part of the house. We can make fun of telenovelas, but not to the point where we're mocking them.

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

I was doing telenovelas in Miami and Mexico, and everyone's dream when you're an actor is to be in Hollywood.