Morley Safer Quotes

I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

… a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

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.

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

Reality shows always look for the worst people.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'

We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' and 'Masterchef.' But we don't watch 'Big Brother,' which is rubbish. I certainly won't be tuning into the new series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' either. I think it's awful, exploitative and vulgar.

He [Jack Kemp] is dumber than he looks and even more two faced than I depict him!

… a man steeped in falsehood … who had recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience …. He would sell his grandmother for any advantage.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

The Bachelor' has always been a great show that embraces what's happening in the world and embraces pop culture.

I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.

People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception.