Tia Mowry Quotes

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

There are no rules in live television.

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!

With a reality show, the bottom line is, there's no plot; there's no finale.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

The only difference in reality TV and the other TV is that the scriptwriters for reality TV are not union. I have been on reality TV shows. Believe me, my friends: It's not just improv and whatever happens when the cameras are rolling.

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off.

The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.

There's a thrill in flying by the seat of your pants - trousers, actually: 'pants' in English means underwear - because most shows don't operate that way. Network shows are repetitive.