Game Shows Quotes

• Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

  Michael Ian Black

  Games, Shows, Talk Shows

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

  Andy Richter

  Thinking, Games, Television

  "Q+A: Andy Richter's Secret to Happiness". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. March 13, 2012.

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• I had an opportunity to move to L.A. back in 1999 and start up a horse racing network of all things. At the time, I was younger and married but didn't have kids; so we thought, Let's just go to L.A. for a while and have fun, and we can always come home. One thing led to another; and once I was out there, I had my eyes opened to this other world and quickly got a home and gardens show and did a game show and then The Bachelor ended up falling into my lap in 2001. And 'the rest is history' as they say.

  Chris Harrison

  Horse, Fun, Moving

  Source: www.theartofgallivanting.com

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• For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

  Doug Davidson

  Games, Play, Shows

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• The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

  Joni Mitchell

  Land, Games, Politics

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

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• I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

  Guy Fieri

  Men, Thinking, Games

  "Guy Fieri on Why He Was Born to Host Minute to Win It". Interview with Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. March 13, 2010.

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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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• Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth

  Bob Barker

  Games, Ideas, People

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.

  Chuck Barris

  Dream, Blow, Gun

  "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

  Colleen Haskell

  Girl, Games, Considerate

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• Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan
  That's the fate of every Magpie
  While Mam perfects her game show skills
  Giving talks at the WI

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Fate, Games

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• The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

  George Clooney

  Motivational, Dad, Aunt

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• Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Numbers, Games, Lucky

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• I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the store....You deserve better.

  Michael Moore

  Inspirational, Games, Islands

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• Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doors, Games, Car

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• Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Doors

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• How about a new game show called 'Battle Begala?' Contestants would pick any obscure bad thing that happened anywhere in the world, and Paul would have 10 seconds to explain why it is President Bush's fault.

  Ann Coulter

  Games, Battle, President

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. August 5, 2002.

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• Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

  Hal Sparks

  Dream, Sorry, Reality

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• The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

  Ray Wise

  Games, Car, Style

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• It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

  Betsy Palmer

  Games, Want, Actresses

  "EXCLUSIVE: Betsy Palmer Is Friday the 13th's Mrs. Pamela Voorhees!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  Ralph Steadman

  Games, Differences, Evil

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• I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

  Mike Wallace

  Years, Games, Acting

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2006.

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• On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Games, People, Pairs

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• Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs, Work, Games

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.14, Penguin

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• We're so screwed up with our principles. We used to mock Japanese game shows where they ate bugs. Now we're doing the same, if not worse. It's terrifying... It seems the better the quality, the more you're penalised... There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it. They put fame ahead of talent and think someone from 'EastEnders' will put bums on seats.

  Philip Glenister

  Running, Thinking, Games

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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