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In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet. -- Dr. Dre
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. -- Penn Jillette
I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions. -- Lisa Kudrow
There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. -- George Clooney
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is. -- Annie Besant
People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them. -- Josh Henderson
I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor. -- Sara Gilbert
I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things. -- Jai Rodriguez
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
Now, apparently, Im told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime-time reality show. -- Jodie Foster
We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show. -- George Pataki
I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette, but I don't know. People approach me, I think, but maybe it's because of the reality show. -- Ashlee Simpson
If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world. -- John Green
I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale". -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
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
I was actually on two reality shows, which is crazy. Just to think that, out there, there was some guy, like flipping through the channels, being like, 'Hey, I 69'd her on a cruise ship. -- Amy Schumer
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
There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show. -- Monica Potter
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity. -- Daniel H. Pink
If you had been a public figure from the time you were a toddler, if you'd had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, than maybe to you might value privacy above all else. I have given everything up there from the time that I was three-years old. That's reality show enough, don't you think? -- Jodie Foster
I watched that new reality show on ABC with Charlie Gibson, 'America's Next Top Vice President.' ... Oh, what an exciting show that is! Did you see Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson? Did you all watch that? In fact, John McCain was watching it at home, and at one point, he turned to his wife and said, 'She looks really familiar.' -- Jay Leno
Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting. -- Nigel Barker
Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity. -- Suzi Quatro
Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music. -- Kailash Kher
Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows. -- Diablo Cody
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it. -- Morley Safer
When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine. -- NeNe Leakes
I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn! -- Camille Paglia
Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants. -- Shreya Ghoshal
I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately. -- Will Champlin
I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the 'Housewives.' I am a huge fan of 'New Jersey.' -- NeNe Leakes
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed. -- Tom Shales
When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down. -- Michelle Ryan
I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains. -- Georgia May Jagger
Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to. -- Joe Slovo
So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values. -- Bill Rancic
I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV. -- Sandra Bullock
You can't really class all reality shows together. For instance, 'Top Chef' is about talent and competition. 'Big Brother' is more like what happens when you get all those narcissistic personalities crammed in together... and there are limits to that. -- Sienna Guillory
There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show. -- Monica Potter
American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing. -- Tom Shales
You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads. -- Cris Judd
I hate reality shows that are not reality. -- Joan Rivers
In reality opposites are one; art shows this. -- Eli Siegel
Reality shows always look for the worst people. -- Drew Carey
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries. -- Chris Lilley
I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows. -- Ne-Yo
You have to remember that reality shows capture your worst moments. -- Nicole Polizzi
The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is -- Marina Abramovic
The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is. -- Marina Abramovic
Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things. -- Billy Bob Thornton
For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show. -- Penn Jillette
When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff. -- Cassidy Gifford
When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets. -- Giuliana Rancic
It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows. -- Peter Funt
If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness. -- Omari Hardwick
I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent. -- Joss Whedon
I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows. -- Jon Glaser
I watch way too many VH1 reality shows like 'I Love Money' and 'Tough Love.' -- Sterling Knight
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go. -- Natalie Gulbis
I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl. -- Janet Street-Porter
The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old. -- Carole Nelson Douglas
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. -- Shuler Hensley
There definitely is exposure in reality shows, but the exposure will basically get you more reality shows. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting. -- Terry Wogan
If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship. -- Giuliana Rancic
All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody. -- Cat Deeley
The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time. -- Sara Ramirez
All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish. -- Terry Wogan
I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly. -- George Lopez
I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned. -- Carl Hiaasen
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. -- Thomas Carlyle
Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows. -- Pete Waterman
Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all. -- Chuck Barris
History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality. -- Jim Webb
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction. -- Steven Soderbergh
Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows. -- Penelope Spheeris
I hate reality shows. But if I had to be on one, I'd have to say 'Realtree Road Trips' on the Outdoor Channel. -- Blake Shelton
I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. -- Stephen Root
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
There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility. -- Nivard Kinsella
I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I'm not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously. -- NeNe Leakes
I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television. -- Kelly Wearstler
A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough. -- Bruce Nash
I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride. -- Tyga
I'm too old to be humiliated on reality shows, and I don't want to look desperate. You won't see me on 'Big Brother' or in the jungle. -- Bobby Davro
The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own. -- Craig Finn
Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows. -- Kelly Link
I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like 'Top Chef.' -- Jessica Stroup
It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality! -- Michael Jeter
I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I'm doing something else. -- Donald Trump
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist. -- Marcel Proust
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. -- David Bohm
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
The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life. -- LeAnn Rimes
Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me. -- Alfre Woodard
A lot of these "reality shows" do a lot of producing scenes and producing things and drama and all that but we did the deal contingent that we wouldn't do that. -- Mike Stud
I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage. -- Joe Dante
I'm in love with 'Bravo.' Me and my girlfriends love 'Bravo-ing,' which doesn't necessarily mean watching 'Bravo.' It's when you're a bum and you're on your couch watching reality shows. -- Ashley Tisdale
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move. -- Barry Manilow

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