Quotes About Reality

Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.

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

Behind the glossy hair and smart dresses you see on TV, this is who I am: a busy working mum like any other.

I think I love fiction shows more than the reality shows. I have been offered many shows, but I don't think I am tailored for reality TV.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.

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

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.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

I was an actress long before I was a reality TV person.

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.

I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

We have a responsibility to show the public the kinds of truths that they don't see on the TV news or the Hollywood film.

You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don't have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It's an ideological tool.

People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.

I am not looking at my TV show to change the world.

I have a hit TV show.

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

Usually people are pretty cool when they find out it's a TV show.

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.