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.
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Related I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they jus... GEORGIA MAY JAGGER Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. ... SIENNA GUILLORY I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool. DAVE ATTELL What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housew... CAMILLE PAGLIA Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a reall... DAMIEN FAHEY It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show... ETHAN COEN Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that's only 10% of my life. The... KYLIE JENNER Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pre... SABRINA CARPENTER I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my th... KALEY CUOCO I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect... AVRIL LAVIGNE I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. E... CLINT EASTWOOD Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed realit... JODHI MAY I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be sayi... NIKKI COX I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a ga... BEN FELDMAN I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life. HUGO WEAVING I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it r... BRODY JENNER My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it an... ETHAN HAWKE I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction. HILL HARPER I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... MIKE COLTER You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so s... ALEXANDRA ROACH I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships. NENE LEAKES Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don... QUENTIN BLAKE Most of the time, you don't win anything on reality shows. You're booted off, or maybe you w... MICHAEL IAN BLACK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen... ZOSIA MAMET Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just anothe... STEVEN SODERBERGH People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different. D. A. PENNEBAKER I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy ... ZACHARY KNIGHTON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black ... STEPHANIE MILLS When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... CLARENCE THOMAS People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can ... JOSH HENDERSON I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairyta... BETHENNY FRANKEL I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and har... SANDRA BULLOCK I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I c... BOB SAGET You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of ... RAOUL PECK As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's..... JONATHAN LEVINE I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't... ATTICUS SHAFFER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader. REUVEN RIVLIN I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've create... DAKOTA JOHNSON I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy. GARY LOCKWOOD I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the out... KENDRA WILKINSON I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reali... BOB SAGET It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that i... TREY PARKER I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even ... CHRISTOPHER PARKER I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, ... RYAN GOSLING There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of real... CHRIS WARE There are a lot of actors who don't like reality stars 'cause they feel these people aren... NIECY NASH I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is th... SHANE CARRUTH I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don&... FRANK BLACK I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. JEAN PAUL GAULTIER I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depre... TAO LIN Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch som... VICTORIA OSTEEN 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's ju... RANDALL PARK People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility.... OPRAH WINFREY Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. LES BROWN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h... BARBARA MANDRELL I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on se... KRISTEN STEWART I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but ... ADAM RAYNER Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality... DENNIS FARINA Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what... SHIA LABEOUF The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... STEPHEN COLBERT I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna ... ETTA JAMES I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I a... RACHEL ROY So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the ... ZACH BRAFF I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that... ERIC CHURCH I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere ... AYUMI HAMASAKI There's not enough time in each day to really focus enough attention on any one thing, but I'... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI You know what, I don't really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what's great about them is t... ROY YAMAGUCHI I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show. RANBIR KAPOOR It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a day... AMIN MAALOUF I don't want to be a reality retro star. BRET MICHAELS One of my favorite things is mayonnaise and I have to tell you that. I love mayonnaise, but I don... MIKE DITKA In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to ... BRIAN BOSWORTH If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa... VANESSA HUDGENS Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids ... BILLY BOB THORNTON I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu... DEMETRI MARTIN There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists ... ART MALIK I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's ... CARLY FIORINA I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world. NIECY NASH Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite ... MICHELLE PHAN That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always wa... PAUL WALKER Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, ... JACK OSBOURNE I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then th... BOBBY FLAY The song 'Conceited' on 'There's Something About Remy' was inspired by people al... REMY MA
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BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur... BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins... BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic... BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a... BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome... BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new... BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated... BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ... BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta... BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin... BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w... BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise. BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o... BARBARA KINGSOLVER