Chuck Barris Quotes
- 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 for…
- Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
- When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to…
- 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…
- I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he…
- Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
- There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that.…
- The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy…
- One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.