Reality Television Quotes:

But reality television is here to stay.

- Cilla Black

topic: Reality, Television, Reality Television

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

- Cilla Black

topic: Reality, Television, Reality Television

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

- Mike White

topic: Life Lesson, Reality, Television, Reality Television

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

- Genevieve Gorder

topic: Stupid, Reality, People, Reality Television

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

- Shemar Moore

topic: Reality, Different, Television, Reality Television

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

- Diane Lane

topic: Reality, Different, Television, Reality Television

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

- Carson Daly

topic: Reality, Idols, Television, Reality Television

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

- Bo Burnham

topic: Hate, Thinking, Reality, Reality Television

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

- Chris Hedges

topic: Pain, Betrayal, Dark, Reality Television, Celebrity Culture

The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

- Chris Hedges

topic: Reality, Media, Sick, Reality Television, Belittle

Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

- Larry Gelbart

topic: Real, Television, Honest, Reality Television

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

- NeNe Leakes

source: "NeNe Leakes Opens Up On Reality Television Not Being Scripted", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

topic: Reality, Television, Doe, Reality Television

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

- Tom Shales

topic: Reality, Sugar, Credit, Reality Television

The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.

- Daniel Gillies

topic: Athlete, Sacrifice, Reality, Folds, Performance Enhancing Drugs

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

- Martha Plimpton

topic: Reality, Healthy, Soul, Reality Television

I remember my mentor once said, "The low road is crowded. The high road is wide open. So let's try to take the high road." I think that people are hungry for content that enriches and expires. You can entertain people while still expanding their horizons. You don't have to have it be a race to the bottom with reality television.

- Jason Silva

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Reality Television, High Road, Taking The High Road

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

topic: Stars, Reality, America, Reality Television, Watching Television

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

- Annie Lennox

source: "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Reality, Dollars, Culture, Reality Television

Donald Trump has been practicing the chords of reality politics for 11 years doing reality television. And so he's clearly the frontrunner and he is clearly dominating. But I still believe in some old rules.

- Hugh Hewitt

source: "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

topic: Believe, Reality, Years, Reality Television

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

- Prabal Gurung

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Reality, Stupidity, Degradation, Reality Television, Aging Gracefully

Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.

- Van Jones

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Reality, Eight, Years, Reality Television

The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.

- Chuck Todd

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Reality, Television, Changed, Reality Television

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Reality, Television, Influence, Reality Television

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

- Lorna Luft

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Reality, Television, Want, Reality Television

We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.

- Van Jones

topic: Wall, Reality, Climbing, Reality Television

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

- Van Jones

topic: Reality, Media, Television, Reality Television

I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

- Chelsea Handler

source: Source: variety.com

topic: Reality, Thinking, Television, Reality Television

There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

- Ian O'Doherty

topic: Reality, Two, People, Reality Television

I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated! One thing I loved about living in New York was that I could sit on my stoop and just watch life happen. It was better than any kind of reality television - way more entertaining and enlightening.

- Idara Victor

topic: New York, Reality, Television, Reality Television

If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of things I wouldn't fret about: a reality television program depicting the lives of ordinary Americans; a clause in a contract between parties to a business transaction agreeing that any disputes that arise between them be resolved in compliance with shared religious principles; halal soup; halal turkeys on the Thanksgiving table.

- Sarah Posner

topic: Religious, Party, Reality, Reality Television, Clauses

My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.

- Darius McCrary

source: "The Darius McCrary Interview - The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

topic: Reality, People, Age, Reality Television

The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

- Eric Drooker

topic: Art, Real, Celebrity Gossip, Reality Television, Creating Art

I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.

- Dolph Lundgren

topic: Real, Character, Kids, Staring At You, Reality Television

I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.

- Pamela Anderson

topic: Reality, Pay, Television, Reality Television

I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

- Scarlett Johansson

topic: Stars, Reality, Thinking, Reality Television

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

source: "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wants Jobs for the Young". The Associated Press Article, October 11, 2008.

topic: Nice, Party, Reality, Reality Television

As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother

- John Sentamu

topic: Brother, Reality, Events, Reality Television, Celebs

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.

- Ken Stott

topic: Reality, Television, Thrown, Reality Television

What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

- Lorrie Moore

source: The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

topic: Reality, People, Giving, Reality Television

One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.

- Sarah Ellison

topic: Stars, Father, Mean, Reality Television, Bombastic

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

- Jeanne Shaheen

topic: Reality, Race, Political, Reality Television, Political Debates

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

- Merrill Markoe

topic: Reality, Television, Unions, Reality Television

I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

- Garry Shandling

topic: Real, Thinking, Special People, Reality Television

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

- Tony Todd

topic: Reality, Thinking, Television, Reality Television

Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

- Alexander McCall Smith

source: Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.10, Anchor

topic: Eye, Reality, Expression, Reality Television

Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.

- John Landgraf

topic: Stars, Real, Winning, Reality Television

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

- William Gibson

topic: Brother, Book, Reality, Reality Television

I think reality television is such a special talent.

- Margaret Cho

topic: Reality, Thinking, Special, Special Talents, Reality Television

Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

- Brian May

topic: Kings, Mean, Boys, Reality Television

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

- B. J. Novak

source: B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.145, Vintage

topic: Basketball, Reality, People, Reality Television, Cotton Candy