Camille Grammer Quotes

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

I hate reality shows that are not reality.

Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.

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

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

Reality TV is anything but.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

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

For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

Moving people into reality TV is a mistake.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

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

As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.

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

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

What we do is entertainment. They wouldn't go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.