Quotes About Authenticity

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

What was great about 'Cold Feet' is that although it flew off down all different avenues, it was really based on believing the reality of the characters.

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?

I would never be on a reality show.

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

I got offered a bunch of reality show stuff, but I didn't want to be known for that, so I turned it all down.

Hell would freeze over before I would do a reality show. I've been offered everything you could possibly imagine, and it just doesn't interest me. You certainly won't see me dancing on TV.

If you want proof that 'Catfish' was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.

When you sign up for a reality show, you have to put your personal life out there.

You can't really necessarily explain what being on a reality show is like until it's happening to you.

I think what people have to just naturally give me the respect for is the fact that me being a woman and no matter what I've done, fault to mistakes or right to wrong, that I'm able to step out and be like, 'This is who I am and this is who I love to be with. This is what it is, this is my life. I'm on a reality show so you get what you get.'

No way will I put my family and my life on the TV or be involved with something like a dating show or any type of reality show.

It's easy to make a reality show that's sensational but it's more challenging to make a reality show that's got a lot of heart and integrity and still keeps you enthralled and makes you want to keep watching.

If I do a reality show, it'll have to be a real reality show. I can't do a scripted reality show.

I hate reality shows that are not reality.

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.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

I feel people are not real in reality shows and can use emotions as a pawn.

I feel these shows allow you to be yourself, this is why I like to be part of them. Also, reality shows have a much bigger reach and provide a bigger platform for an actor.

I want to be part of real reality shows, but don't want to do shows where I am told to give more points to one candidate because he/she is from a particular state. We have to judge by merit.

Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting.

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.