Quiz Show Quotes

• My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Beach, Lying, Moving

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• Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."

  Astra Taylor

  America, People, Rose

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Ideas, True Romance

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• I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

  Charles Van Doren

  Evil, Good And Evil, I've Learned

  "Fictional character: Charles Van Doren". "Quiz Show", 1994.

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• I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

  Charles Van Doren

  Deceived, My Friends, Millions

  "Quiz Show". 1994.

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• Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

  Paul Scofield

  Cheating, Comic, Quiz

  "Fictional character: Mark Van Doren". "Quiz Show", www.imdb.com. September 23, 1994.

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• If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

  Mark Van Doren

  Gambling, Looks, Tables

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• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Sin

  1603 Escalus. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.1, l.38.

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• I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

  Maury Povich

  Games, Host, Gamer

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• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Color, Aggravation, Numbers

  "Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Art, Writing, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.

  Dave Barry

  Cheating, Thinking, Years

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• My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

  Lynne Truss

  Challenges, World, Sad Person

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• I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.

  Nick Lowe

  Writing, Character, Stripes

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

  Jo Brand

  Men, Boards, Looks

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