Best television & reality-television Quotes

“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.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“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.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

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

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Author:Mike White

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

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Author:NeNe Leakes

“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”

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Author:Garry Shandling

“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”

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Author:John Sentamu

“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.”

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

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Author:Merrill Markoe

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

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Author:Pamela Anderson

“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'.”

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Author:William Gibson

“I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page newstrying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“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.”

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Author:Martti Ahtisaari

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

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Author:Larry Gelbart

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

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Author:Ken Stott

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

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Author:Tom Shales

“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.”

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Author:Jeanne Shaheen

“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.”

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Author:Eric Drooker

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Darius McCrary

“Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

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

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Author:Tony Todd

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

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Author:Joss Whedon

“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?”

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“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.”

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Author:Hugh Hewitt

“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.”

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Author:Chuck Todd

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