I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.

Debra Granik

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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

Adam McKay

Wit While Where

So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke.

Aidan Gillen

Work Love Yin

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

Al Jourgensen

Life Watch TV

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'

Alan Sugar

Youngsters Youngster Young

Honey, unlike the song 'Same Parts' by Tatianna, what you see with Alyssa Edwards is always the truth. She is literally a walking catchphrase factory. She is like an oil out of the ground. She is reality tv, and I absolutely love her.

Alaska

War Truth Love

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

Alexander Ludwig

Pet Nature Us

I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.

Alexandra Roach

Love X Factor Why

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

Alice Eve

Love You Wit

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

Alison Owen

Pet Movies Car

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.

Alison Sweeney

Time Love Hope

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

Amanda Burton

Women Men Art

We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.

Andie MacDowell

Women Men Yelling

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

Andre Leon Talley

Time Watched Watch

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

Andre Leon Talley

Art TV Though

For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.

Andrea Seigel

War Villainy Villain

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Andrea Seigel

Men Which TV

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.

Andrew O'Hagan

Who Were Watch

I'm really bad, I watch reality TV sometimes - I just think it's the best form of escape.

Annastacia Palaszczuk

Time Watch Us

Evangelicalism's moral values are now articulated by reality stars like the Duggar family, who Mike Huckabee embraced, and 'Duck Dynasty,' whose patriarch, Phil Robertson, endorsed Cruz. Palin herself, an evangelical darling in 2008, has had two reality TV shows: 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' and 'Sarah Palin's Amazing America.'

Anthea Butler

Family Art Amazing

I love trashy reality TV - all of it.

Ashley Madekwe

For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

Aubrey O'Day

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

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

Bethenny Frankel

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Bethenny Frankel

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

Bethenny Frankel

They asked me to go on 'Hell's Kitchen' but I'm banned from reality TV by my wife. She's not up for that kind of tomfoolery.

Bob Mortimer

I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.

Bob Saget

I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.

Bob Saget

Reality TV started becoming big when I was in college, around 2002. I remember everyone kept saying, 'Man, you guys should do reality.' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

Brie Bella

We want to be more than just being the Bella Twins and the stars of these reality TV shows. I want to have a bigger purpose in life. So that's why, with Birdiebee, we really want to give back.

Brie Bella

There's a difference between reality TV and reality. There's a big difference.

Camille Grammer

I was a little hesitant to do 'Love & Hip-Hop' because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.

Cardi B

It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing reality TV again because of that.

Chanel West Coast

Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.

Chanel West Coast

I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.

Christina Ricci

The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.

Christine Todd Whitman

Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure.

Christopher Fowler

Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there are 20 cable networks and so many ways for films to be exhibited. It's an exciting time for actors, writers, directors, and producers.

Corbin Bernsen

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

Damian Lewis

Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

Dana Perino

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

Dana Schutz

Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

Daphne Guinness

I don't watch reality TV.

Dave Attell

I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.

Dave Attell

There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

Dave Gahan

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

David Harsanyi

There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost - various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people get up to on reality TV, and also graphic violence and swearing - the taboo of various swear-words is no longer there. It's worrying.

David Jason

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

David Suchet

I feel like reality TV has thrown a difficult wrench in the system - on the programming and making side, and on the curating side - which is that we now have a higher threshold for the salacious. We have a higher threshold, unprecedented, for fast, cheap, and out of control.

Debra Granik