Top 100 Quotes About Reality Tv
#1. She knew exactly what happened in Las Palabras, every single program. It kind of made me wonder why this wasn't a reality TV show.
Karina Halle
#3. The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.
Slash
#4. I got a PBS mind in a reality TV world.
Zetta Brown
#5. Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.
Marcel Dionne
#6. I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.
Lea Michele
#7. I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.
Grace Jones
#8. I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.
Bethenny Frankel
#9. Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.
Merrill Markoe
#10. I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.
Traci Bingham
#12. I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.
Sia Furler
#13. It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.
Bruce Nash
#14. Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.
Andy Bell
#15. My life used to be boring. A damnation here, a curse there, with an occasional blight or two to break routine. Now I have Aisling ... She's better than reality TV, Internet porn sites, and the trashloids all put together.' - Jim
Katie MacAlister
#16. I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.
Janet Montgomery
#17. I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it; it's like my art. I consider my reality show as my art piece, and it's like a sculpture that I built; it's my baby.
Kendra Wilkinson
#18. I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.
Alice Eve
#20. I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
Joanne Froggatt
#21. Reality Tv had become the preferred drug of choice for the George Clooney obsessed housewives strung out on empty promises and splintered dreams
Saira Viola
#22. I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.
Al Jourgensen
#23. I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.
Courtney Love
#24. A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
Val McDermid
#25. In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.
Rick Riordan
#26. I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that.
Phil Morris
#27. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
Kaley Cuoco
#28. You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.
Mike White
#29. Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment
the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.
Jasper Fforde
#30. It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.
Peter Funt
#32. Doing reality TV would have made me more famous than rich, and that would have been awful.
A.D. Aliwat
#33. I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.
Pete Waterman
#34. There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers
#35. I held it together for the rest of the drive home but as soon as Kelsey dropped me off I flopped face down on the couch and sobbed like a reality TV star on confessional day.
Molly Harper
#36. All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.
Terry Wogan
#37. You know what I'm not going to do I'm not going to tell you every move I'm going to make. This isn't a reality TV show. Some things are just best left unsaid. I'll handle the club the way I deem is necessary. They just need to play.
Clint Hurdle
#38. There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.
Sarah Dessen
#40. I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.
Bob Saget
#41. Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
Andrew O'Hagan
#42. For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.
Victoria Mahoney
#43. The constant bombardment of the paranormal through media (Reality TV, Movies, Magazines etc.) is desensitizing our understanding of the cosmic warfare that is being waged by Satan.
Jonah Books
#44. Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
Quentin Blake
#45. Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.
Daphne Guinness
#46. With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
Alison Sweeney
#47. I hate these reality TV shows where people walk off Big Brother and think they're A-list celebrities when they've done nothing in their lives, it really does my head in.
Kevin Pietersen
#48. If people can't take the heat and can't take the controversy then they shouldn't be involved in advertising of reality TV because there is so much heat and controversy in reality TV.
Jackie Warner
#49. People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.
Kim Kardashian
#50. Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
David Harsanyi
#51. I do save a lot. I'm a reality TV star but at the end of the day I know you have to save. With my career it can sometimes be over in an instant and that's why I've always saved.
Amy Childs
#52. Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.
Dan Gelber
#53. I do like reality TV like 'The Voice.' I enjoyed working there every single day. It was amazing.
Monica
#54. History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.
Esther M. Friesner
#55. I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
Damian Lewis
#56. I've said no to 'Celebrity Big Brother,' 'Strictly,' and the American one, 'Dancing With The Stars.' I don't feel it's right for me. I've been asked to do reality TV a zillion times. No way. No way. Nobody's going to get into my living room and see me there.
Joan Collins
#57. I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
Ozzy Osbourne
#58. I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.
Bob Saget
#59. I do like reality TV. I've always liked 'Survivor' since season 1.
Heather Doerksen
#60. I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.
Bethenny Frankel
#61. You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.
Kym Whitley
#62. Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and the coverage of the Iraq war.
Suzanne Collins
#63. Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.
Katy Perry
#64. Jesus Christ, MTV would make a mint with a reality TV show about their unit. The relationship drama alone would carry the ratings, forget the actual fieldwork.
Charlie Cochet
#65. I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.
Ne-Yo
#68. YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?
Alison Owen
#69. I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
Hill Harper
#70. A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.
Lauren Conrad
#71. The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.
John Thune
#72. I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.
Sean Duffy
#73. I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.
Christina Ricci
#74. In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.
James Poniewozik
#75. Why do I read? To know that I am alive. To know that hope and humanity exist in the world. To remember that some people spend years of their life, not watching reality TV or pornography, but trying to create something meaningful and lasting and beautiful. I read to know what is possible.
Gea Haff
#76. Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.
Dana Gould
#77. People will always want it [reality TV shows], if it's produced well and if it's telling people's stories - that's all anybody wants: to connect with another human being on a very basic level. If the stories are told well, I think it can continue and continue.
Cat Deeley
#78. Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'
Alan Sugar
#79. Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
Pete Waterman
#80. Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'
Victoria Osteen
#81. I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.
Alexandra Roach
#82. Now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
Ernest Cline
#83. I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.
Kevin Costner
#84. Nothing scares me more than a failed attempt. The last thing I want is to end up in a wheelchair, eating pulverized food and being watched around the clock by some sassy nurse who has a not-so-secret obsession with cheesy reality TV.
Jasmine Warga
#85. I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.
Jenny Eclair
#86. Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.
Josh Pais
#87. We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.
Andie MacDowell
#88. Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
Diablo Cody
#89. There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
Feist
#90. It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.
Lauren Graham
#91. Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?
Ernest Cline
#92. Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
Lynda Resnick
#93. Wait, maybe I could get a reality TV contract. We could call it Grim in the City.
Darynda Jones
#94. Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
Gary Oldman
#95. Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure.
Christopher Fowler
#96. I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.
Douglas Coupland
#97. Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.
Gilbert Gottfried
#98. There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.
Noel Fielding
#99. Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
Pete Waterman
#100. I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.
Jenny Hval
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