Top 100 Reality Show Sayings
#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
#2. I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.
Billy Eichner
#3. Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.
Andrew Clements
#4. It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.
Carolina Herrera
#5. You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.
Allan Houston
#6. Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.
Kathryn Schulz
#7. Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#8. A reality show about a group of children attempting to run their own small country.
Marissa Meyer
#9. I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show.
Clint Eastwood
#10. I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.
Julianne Hough
#11. This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
Steven Spielberg
#12. Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
Liza Minnelli
#13. You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much
Betty Friedan
#14. They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.
Dawn Ostroff
#15. My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.
Dean Koontz
#16. I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.
NeNe Leakes
#17. We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.
Martin Parr
#18. Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.
Lindsay Lohan
#20. Getting involved with a victim was kind of like trying to find love on a reality show ... rarely successful.
Carla Cassidy
#21. I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.
Rob Mariano
#22. The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example.
But of what?
Steve Abbott
#23. The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.
Martin Sheen
#24. I'd like to do a reality show with four white people ... who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called ... Cracker Hunt.
Zach Galifianakis
#25. I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.
Jason Mraz
#26. Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the entire colon. I say, don't vie CBS an idea for another reality show.
Bill Maher
#28. I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'
Rachel Tucker
#29. I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
Melody Beattie
#30. Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
Bob Iger
#32. Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
H.R. Giger
#33. There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about a defense lawyer whose name is Samantha Brinkman. And I am reviewing speaking engagement opportunities.
Marcia Clark
#34. A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#35. Welcome to My Super Secret Life, where people try to kill us on a regular basis, and we thwart bad-guy schemes for breakfast. We're almost like a reality show, only without the alcohol and hot tubs.
Gini Koch
#36. That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
Francis Schaeffer
#37. We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.
Antony Starr
#38. I want to do another reality show. It's based on The Mole. It's about sexually transmitted diseases. It's called "God, I Hope That's a Mole."
Zach Galifianakis
#39. 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
#40. I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.
Andy Gibb
#41. Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show ... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
Richard Phillips
#42. Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.
Kerry King
#43. I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?
Seth MacFarlane
#44. The shifting sands of the world ... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.
Michael Richardson
#45. I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.
David Charvet
#46. Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
Sebastiao Salgado
#47. Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'
Beth Broderick
#48. If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
Gerhard Richter
#49. Donald Trump was, you know, obviously a very important businessman, billionaire, he was a reality show star and I think that he has had more success running for president than probably even he imagined.
Joy-Ann Reid
#50. I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.
Heather Chapple
#51. Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.
Peggy Orenstein
#52. We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.
Jessica Simpson
#53. I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.
Joe Bastianich
#54. For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects ... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
Tamala Jones
#55. you can't feel it. And if He doesn't show up in your circumstances, it's the end of the road. As the reality of the situation sets in, you can't help but wonder if God really cares. You reason,
Cherie Hill
#56. Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.
Cheryl Hines
#57. You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.
Jimi Hendrix
#58. I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out.
"You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.
Richelle Mead
#59. She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.
Carlos Fuentes
#60. I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.
Jamie Chung
#61. I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
Gabourey Sidibe
#62. The day you start institutionalizing "Walk the talk" life shall show the dream to reality path.
V.V. Rao
#63. A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
Gunter Grass
#64. Ten years from now, I would like to see myself successful as a brand, like Jessica Simpson, with babies running around and a beautiful husband and my own reality show.
Nicole Polizzi
#65. Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.
Campbell Newman
#66. Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
Billy Connolly
#67. If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.
Master P
#68. Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
Joanna Scott
#69. I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
Tamra Davis
#70. I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.
Hilarie Burton
#71. Why isn't there a reality TV show filled with hot guys doing sweaty, mouthwatering tasks?
Oh, right. That's called sports
Cora Carmack
#72. You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.
Jorge Ramos
#73. 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.
Brian Keene
#74. In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
Jeff Goodell
#75. Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.
Alexander Ludwig
#76. We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.
Lisa Kudrow
#77. So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
Alan Thicke
#78. Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.
Ty Segall
#79. For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
Penn Jillette
#80. If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.
Russell Hoban
#81. Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#82. I wanted 'Southland' to feel immediate, like a ride-along, and to make it the closest thing possible to a cop reality show. We've got real cops out there every day. A lot of times we'll say, 'You guys just do what you normally do and we'll film it.'
Christopher Chulack
#83. In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible ... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
Paul Klee
#84. You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.
Martti Ahtisaari
#85. Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.
Don King
#86. I think the last reality show I watched was the first 'Survivor'. That was a long time ago.
David Henrie
#87. I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.
Doug E. Fresh
#88. I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.
George Clooney
#89. For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney-client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
Laura Wasser
#90. I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.
Barbara Mandrell
#91. I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
Molly Ringwald
#92. When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.
S.M. Stevens
#93. The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.
Karl Schroeder
#94. In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to subvert it, or to show that photography lies - that what it conveys is not reality but a set of cultural codes.
Christian Boltanski
#95. The band was formed on the reality show So You Think the British Don't Have Talent?,
Goldy Moldavsky
#96. Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.
Marc Pamittan
#97. Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.
Michael Loceff
#98. I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.
Kym Whitley
#99. I don't like work
no man does
but I like what is in the work
the chance to find yourself. Your own reality
for yourself not for others
what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
Joseph Conrad
#100. It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'
Jenna Morasca
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