Nina Arianda Quotes

I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.

To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.'

I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit there for a few hours.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

I think because my life is so insane and it's constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

I'm a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.

I do watch some kind of terrible shows on VH1, 'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,' 'Basketball Wives.' Those are like my guilty pleasures. When I want to see some drama, I'll watch those.

I definitely watch reality shows where I'm not learning something better in the end.

I really like dumb romantic comedies; that's the way I can turn my brain off and let go.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.