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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.”

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

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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 you get…

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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 just starting…

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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 cure calls…

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Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show 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 he does,…

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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 with what…

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

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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. I would…

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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…

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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 any venues…

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