We want to seam in reality as we are on TV. — James Murray
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. — John Lennon
Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house. — Groucho Marx
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — Nathalie Sarraute
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. — Ann Landers
Reality is something you rise above. — Liza Minnelli
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. — Woody Allen
Television is for appearing on, not looking at. — Noel Coward
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
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them. — James Taylor
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment. — Vince McMahon
Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it — Edgar Allan Poe
Short Reality Television Quotes
Reality whistles a different tune underwater. — Tom Robbins
TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing. — Matthew Weiner
Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write. — Dana White
It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias. — Stephen Colbert
Reality is not always probable, or likely. — Jorge Luis Borges
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. — Fred W. Friendly
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. — Groucho Marx
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be. — Frank Zappa
I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. — Kathy Griffin
Reality Television Image Quotes
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Reality Show Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. — Irenaeus of Lyons
I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are. — Angie Stone
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you're open to it — Masaru Emoto
The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little I said, 'I want to be on a reality show when I grow up.' They didn't even have them then, you know? — Theo Von
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons. — Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons. — Amiri Baraka
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist. — Richard M. Weaver
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure. — Sigmund Freud
Literally, our show is friendship on display. It's not a written comedy show. It's not a reality show. It's just four friends making each other laugh. And who doesn't enjoy watching people enjoy their friends? — Joe Gatto
Reality Tv Show Quotes
Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows. — Pete Waterman
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
The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations. — Stevie Wonder
No artist tolerates reality.
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go. — Natalie Gulbis
People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show. — Kim Kardashian
Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.
Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different. — Pete Waterman
Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is. — Billy Connolly
I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show. — Jenny Hval
You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing. — Bill Mechanic
Reality Tv Quotes
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead. — Jim Morrison
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
When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is now a reality thanks to Airtel digital TV. This day will forever remain truly unforgettable. — Mohammed Rafi
Be careful what you say. Words do not only describe reality. Words create reality.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality. — Aaron Sorkin
Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? — Ryan Giggs
There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo. — Noel Fielding
Dream... but don't sleep.
It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality. — Bruce H. Lipton
Being president isn't anything like reality TV. — Michelle Obama
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think. — Naveen Andrews
For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable. — Victoria Mahoney
Reality Shows Quotes
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. — Jeff Goodell
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. — H. R. Giger
No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is the youngest art form. All attempts to enlarge its frontiers are important and should be encouraged. — Philippe Halsman
Defeat is a state of mind: no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity. — Larry Winget
Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them. — James Dean
The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality. — Piet Mondrian
Control is an illusion, let it be, and enjoy the peace.
History shows that there are no invincible armies. — Joseph Stalin
When the Holy Spirit comes into your life, He will show you things to come; you will no longer be in the dark. You will no longer walk in confusion but live each day in the light. You will face the future with faith and confidence. He is the Spirit of reality, Hallelujah! — Chris Oyakhilome
In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet. — Dr. Dre
We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such. — Robert Anton Wilson
Reality Based Quotes
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. — John F. Kerry
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. — Albert Bandura
In today’s politics, if you forget that your perception of reality has probably been at least a little manipulated, and your opponents are behaving the way they are based on a perception of reality that’s different from your own — you’re bound to get things wrong. — Tim Urban
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is the only country in the world where women and men report that they attend the mosque in equal numbers, but our institutions aren't representing this reality. — Dalia Mogahed
Expectations are not based on reality. They are observations, expected realities, or beliefs of what you think will happen. Expectations of others stop us from acting as our highest selves and reaching our full potential. — Jay Shetty
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. — Paul Dirac
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. — Bill Maher
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American. — Edward Kennedy
Unreality Quotes
The more real you get, the more unreal things get. — Tyga
It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections. — Jacque Fresco
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. — Amedeo Modigliani
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. — Alvin Toffler
There is no reality except the one contained within us. — Hermann Hesse
What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal — Fred Alan Wolf
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. — George F. Kennan
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not. — Protagoras
I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. — Elsa Schiaparelli
100% of all haters in the world have unrealized potential. — Joe Rogan
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. — Shirley Chisholm
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters. — Chris Hedges
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Bill Gates
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? — Scarlett Johansson
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
Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings. — Ralph Nader
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
I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly. — George Lopez
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
You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life. — David Cassidy
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. — Ellen Burstyn
So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" You know what I'm talking about. I turn on the television and I'm like, "This is so bad, but I cannot get my fucking eyes off of it." It's not good. — Michael Pitt
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
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. — Camille Anna Paglia
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
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
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around. — Alan Thicke
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 is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting. — Shemar Moore
I humbly apologise for reality Television. — Cilla Black
But reality television is here to stay. — Cilla Black
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends. — Kathy Griffin
Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric. — Darnell M. Hunt
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
Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television. — Ronda Rousey
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television. — Mike White
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 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
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
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 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
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
We're all being segregated or sent to our different rooms to watch television that's geared only for adults, to be honest. There's very little fare - outside of cartoons and a few things for children (and) I guess (some reality shows like) The Voice - that can be watched by the entire family. — Michael Landon, Jr.
Doing reality TV is a lot harder than I thought because I come from the world of [scripted] television where everything is thought out and you know what's going to happen, your lines, what your wardrobe is going to be, etc. But with reality, it's very spontaneous and the cameras are around for 12 hours a day. — Tia Mowry
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
Some people prefer to see the game in the television than to go to the stadium. With virtual reality this will go to be worse, but at the end the "real" reality will win, because a virtual meal is not the same thing as a real one! — Rodolfo Llinas
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 disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators. — Marie Winn
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
I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships. — NeNe Leakes
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan. — Mike White
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. — Richard Helms
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
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
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