Quotes About Reality

If I were on 'Survivor,' I might be the first off the island.

Honestly, surviving in 'Bigg Boss' was a cakewalk as compared to staying in 'Survivor,' where we had to live in primitive-age conditions, even generating fire on our own.

You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

First season of 'Survivor' - Richard Hatch was fascinating.

I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.

Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories and want to see more and more. Every new 'Survivor' is going to show you more.

I really like binge-watching 'Survivor.' Watching week to week is exciting, but it's difficult because I just want to see what happens.

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.

I don't miss a minute of 'Survivor.'

In 'Bigg Boss,' there were so many things that I didn't say and as a result, people thought I was a fake. I have not let it happen in 'Survivor.'

One of the biggest things that hurt me during 'Survivor' was I found out girls can run faster than I can. That really burned me up.

'Survivor' was not fixed. There's no way to fix 'Survivor.'

'Suddenly Susan' is my life.

We've seen people who have a 'make-under' just to try and recapture that Susan Boyle moment but it doesn't work like that.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we're so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they're doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.

We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.