David Bowie Quotes

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

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

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

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 TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.

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

I have so much to thank reality TV for.

You see, one of the things about being a Housewife, and a New Jersey Housewife in particular, is that most of the drama seems to happen behind the scenes when the cameras aren't around.

The landscape of daytime has changed. I'm not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.

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

I'm a sucker for 'Jeremy Kyle,' sad as it sounds. I just go home and watch that, or whatever the missus is watching.

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

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 remember Ozzy Osbourne making a fuss on The Osbournes - people were making a big deal about him taking the garbage out, and he said, "Well, who else is going to do it?" The garbage is full, and you're standing right there. You're still a human being who is going to make yourself a sandwich.

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

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

Being REAL means showing people who you are underneath all the TV make up too.

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.