Andie MacDowell 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.

Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.

I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

We have got offered some shows in America, but really dopey shows - like reality shows.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

But reality television is here to stay.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

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.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

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 still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

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

To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.

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

Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

I think the good thing about 'Take Me Out', which is kind of a compliment to us really, is that when it started doing well round about the second series and people started getting into it, all of a sudden every time you turned over a channel there's a new dating show on.