Josh Pais Quotes

Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting.

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

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

I feel like a lot of people that have been in similar situations as I have, reality TV stars, you can make a packaged version of yourself if you want to - I just don't work that way. I can't do it.

You've can play the game, by all means play the game because that's what it is. But if you think you can act your whole way through 'Big Brother' you shouldn't be in Borehamwood, you should be in Hollywood.

All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.

What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

My stand-up is far more rooted in reality than my Twitter.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

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

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.

It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.

One of the first things I said to my kids and we all agreed upon when we first started shooting the show was if we're going to do this, we're all in. We're not going to worry about editing ourselves. So that's what you see. It's raw, and it's real, and it's footage that hopefully people learn from some of our experiences.

If I were to do some outlandish role, I always made sure I'd be on Johnny Carson to show that I wasn't that person that I played. I'd be myself. And so people got to know me, I think, and I think they know that I'm honest and truthful and real.

Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

I don't like to use the word 'fake.' A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There's a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can't deny that.

I knew how to upset the people, and I did it in such a way that it was believable. That's how I made a living at it for 20 years. I don't regret a thing I done or said in wrestling. Nothing.

Reality TV started becoming big when I was in college, around 2002. I remember everyone kept saying, 'Man, you guys should do reality.' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'

If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections, which tend to shift in shape.

I want authenticity, I don't want players to make a show. I want players to be able to be themselves on court and express all kinds of emotions.