Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all. — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating. — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all. — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does,… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
“I flopped back onto my pillows. I wanted to begin loathing the new day in comfort.” — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
