Slash Quotes

Kim Kardashian is trash.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.

I can understand getting compared to the Kardashians.

I would watch 'the Kardashians' and think, I could do that.

I grew up off 'The Simple Life' where they really made just being a personality a thing.

There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.

People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

I think 'Celebrity Big Brother' is one of the most important shows on TV because we get to see people for who they really, really are and you've only got to look at.

I am obsessed by Kim Kardashian; I do try to find out what Kim's up to.

Because of television, people are now more exposed about actors - one gets to know about actor's personal life. People know that we are just playing characters.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar.

It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.

Moving people into reality TV is a mistake.