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I humbly apologise for reality Television. -- Cilla Black
But reality television is here to stay. -- Cilla Black
Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting. -- Shemar Moore
Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive. -- Tom Shales
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
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
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
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
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
I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money. -- Pamela Anderson
Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality. -- Larry Gelbart
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme. -- Ken Stott
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
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. -- Todd Phillips
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm probably the biggest reality television star living. -- Janice Dickinson
I find reality television to be so delectable. -- Lizzy Caplan
I think reality television is such a special talent. -- Margaret Cho
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television. -- Mike White
I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships. -- NeNe Leakes
I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking. -- T.I.
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme. -- Ken Stott
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
Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing. -- Amanda Hearst
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
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show. -- Todd Phillips
Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after. -- Roxane Gay
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
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
Because of reality television and all these celebrities thinking they can be designers, everyone imagines that they can just become a designer, photographer, or model, but that's not the way things work. People have to go to school, learn their craft, and build a brand - that's the right, healthy way to do things. -- Anna Wintour
Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience. -- Chris Hadfield
One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something. -- Steve James
If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV. -- Pete Waterman
People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television. -- Julie Taymor
The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television. -- Armando Iannucci
Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television. -- Van Jones
Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television. -- Ronda Rousey
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. -- Camille Paglia
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. -- Penn Jillette
She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set. -- William Holden
I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it. -- James Spader
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
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I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it. -- Janice Dickinson
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
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
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it. -- M.C. Beaton
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. -- Julie Bowen
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
Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen. -- Alan Moore
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
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
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
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
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
Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars. -- Kelly Rowland
Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are. -- Dave Price
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
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
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
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
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

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