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Chuck Barris

(1929–2017) Film Director

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Chuck Barris was a film director.

Quick Facts About Chuck Barris

Born: June 3, 1929
Died: March 21, 2017
Profession: Film Director

About Chuck Barris

[Wikidata] American game show creator, producer, and host (1929-2017)... | [Wikipedia] Charles Hirsch Barris was an American game show creator, producer, and host, author, and songwriter. A key crew member of several hugely successful television game shows, he was the creator of The Dating Game (1965–2021), the original producer of The Newlywed Game (1966–2013) both for the ABC networ

Quotes by Chuck Barris

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than…

Be creative

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One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

Delicious

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When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then…

Age

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Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

Entertainment

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The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were…

Checks

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Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The…

Cures

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Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

Business

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I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What…

Critical

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I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time…

Behinds

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“I flopped back onto my pillows. I wanted to begin loathing the new day in comfort.”

New day

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I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.…

Ass

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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…

Accomplished

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The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't…

All time

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The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known…

Five

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Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Fifty

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There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never…

Creative

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