Kathy Griffin Quotes

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.

I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.

Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.

Reality TV has taken over.

I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'

I love trashy reality TV - all of it.

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

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.

I came into reality television with MTV's show 'The Real World,' specifically the 1994 season set in San Francisco. I was glued to the Puck and Pedro drama.

I watch every reality show out there.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

I do like reality TV. I've always liked 'Survivor' since season 1.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the 'Housewives.' I am a huge fan of 'New Jersey.'

I watch every 'Real Housewives' franchise there is.

I watch way too many VH1 reality shows like 'I Love Money' and 'Tough Love.'