Top 80 Housewives Quotes

‘The Real Housewives of Miami’ only shows my life in Miami, and, to be honest, my life is more L.A.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives’ guy. He didn’t try to be what he wasn’t. He just did what he did – made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business – that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.

What does annoy me is when critics use me to ridicule my audience. All the stuff about ‘Tesco housewives’ and ‘the blue-rinse brigade.’

If there is one thing for which the ‘Real Housewives’ franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

I have always approached ‘Housewives’ as a comedy.

‘Desperate Housewives’ – there’s no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were ‘Desperate Househusbands,’ they would shut ABC down.

I actually thought ‘Desperate Housewives’ finished very well. I just think there’s still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren’t done watching those people’s lives.

The thing that’s fun about the ‘Housewives’ is talking to your friends about it.

Typically, housewives and working mums hate each other like dogs fighting for a bone.

I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a ‘Housewives’ whisperer and talk-show host.

When ‘Desperate Housewives’ ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

‘Heroes’, ‘Desperate Housewives’, ‘The Sopranos’ – they’re all very stylised. ‘The Wire’ is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can’t think of anything I’d rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Every year, there is a new diet that all the celebs or housewives are trying. We all want the perfect diet or the perfect pill. If we surveyed a million women, and they could choose to learn the truth about God or the foolproof diet, I guarantee more women would pick the miracle diet over the miracle of life.

Sometimes I want to be on ‘The Real Housewives of New York.’ I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

You watch stuff like ‘The Real Housewives’ and you start to think, ‘We’re all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?’ But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.

‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook.

I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don’t love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I’ve got three daughters so we’ll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.

My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers – for instance, women with headscarves – but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

My goal is that my makeup and style will inspire Midwestern housewives. I want there to be a breakdown of ‘Justin’s smoky eye’ in Cosmo.

You know, we’ve got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than ‘The Real Housewives.’ And I think ‘The Real Housewives’ is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

Who knows what happens with ‘Housewives?’ I will say this, what a great opportunity to have been on the show, and the doors that it’s opened for me, and I have nothing but great things to say about the show.

Yes, I live in Manhattan – and yes, I’m a cast member on ‘The Real Housewives of New York’ – but deep down, I’m still a southern gal from Virginia at heart.

I love watching ‘The Real Housewives of New York.’ That’s my guilty pleasure. But I don’t even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ series isn’t just entertainment for devoted fans like me – it’s an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

I feel like on the ‘Housewives,’ my family stuff was really out there.

If I’m watching ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta,’ there’s a part of that that’s just escapism. I’m not watching it with a political lens, but there is a part of me that certain things trigger and pull up, where I’m like, ‘Oh, that was really problematic.’

‘Desperate Housewives’ is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn’t keep me very busy.

‘Housewives’ are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but ‘Housewives’ are even cattier. But I do think that it’s a total different world, and it can’t compare.

I’m forever grateful for ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ and Bravo for all the opportunities it has brought me and my growing family.

I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.

‘Desperate Housewives’ was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

While I was doing ‘Desperate Housewives,’ I actually watched it from the beginning.

I remember being on a plane a few years ago. And me and this woman sat coldly next to each other for a cross-country trip, fighting over the arm rest the whole time. But then, about an hour before we landed, we noticed that we both had on ‘Housewives,’ and suddenly, we were best friends.

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the ‘Housewives’ because there are so many ‘Housewives’ that are singing that can’t really sing. I didn’t want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

I’m pretty sure I could’ve ended up on ‘Real Housewives of Orange County.’ They need a fair-skinned redhead.

We’ve come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can’t imagine Dr. King watching the ‘Real Housewives’ or ‘Jersey Shore.’

Usually, if I can’t fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of ‘The Real Housewives.’ I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion.

I watch a lot of shows on Bravo – I’m not just saying that. I love ‘Top Chef.’ I love ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta.’ That’s my favorite.

In the case of ‘The Housewives,’ I call the ‘Housewives’ sociology of the rich. I think it’s just fun to watch. It’s guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It’s like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.

I don’t hate any of the Housewives.

I don’t think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

I watch every ‘Real Housewives’ franchise there is.

We have fans in high school, all the way up to grandmas and 40-year-old housewives. College frat guys. It’s all over the map.

If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, ‘The Feminine Mystique’ might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.

Some girls are just cut out to be housewives, drive SUVs and sing in the shower as opposed to being superstars.

It’s funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon ‘Real Housewives’ white, but mine have stopped taking to teeth whitening. When I talk to my dentist, I’m like, ‘They can be that white,’ and he’s like, ‘Veneers can be that white.’

I love rewatching ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ episodes, ‘Project Runway,’ ‘Making the Cut’ and other fun shows. If there’s fashion and/or drama involved, I’ll give it a watch. And of course I’ve got to watch my show ‘Dragnificent’ on TLC!

I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn’t, I’d stay home rolled up in a ball watching ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ all day.

I don’t think we’ll see a ‘Real Housewives of Koreatown’ anytime soon, but here’s hoping.

I have always said that ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’ has the most amazing and loyal fans on the planet.

Ultimately, it’s not my job to judge the ‘Housewives’ – we don’t editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you.