'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.
I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines with lots of twists and it is rooted very strongly in reality and it's really glossy.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.
People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.