Alan Thicke Quotes

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

I've never been unfaithful outside 'Made In Chelsea.' I don't care what the reputation looks like. I was unfaithful on that television show because it's a show about that. I'm not saying it was acceptable behavior, but the show wouldn't work without relationships failing. In real life it's completely different.

It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

I had watched an episode of Black Mirror almost exactly a year prior to when I started shooting my episode. I was by myself in New Zealand, and my husband was like, "You have to see this show. It's so incredible."

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.