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

topic: Games, Shows, Game Shows

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

- James Pearse Connelly

source: "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

topic: Winning, Play, Awards, Game Shows

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

topic: Dream, Sorry, Reality, Game Shows

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

topic: Men, Thinking, Games, Game Shows

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

- Joni Mitchell

source: Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

topic: Land, Games, Politics, Game Shows

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

- Doug Davidson

topic: Games, Play, Shows, Game Shows

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

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

topic: Games, Battle, President, President Bush, Contestants

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

topic: Doors, Games, Car, Game Shows

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

- Andy Richter

topic: Thinking, Games, Television, Game Shows

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

topic: Motivational, Dad, Aunt, Rosemary, Best Advice

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

topic: Happiness, Buddhism, Doors, Game Shows, Daily Experience

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

topic: Games, Car, Style, Used Car, Car Salesman

Someone in my office suggested I get my haircut at New Millennium on Wilshire Blvd. It was so different from any place I had ever been; it was like a party. Everyone was laughing and having a good time and I heard the barbers talking about all of the celebs that get their hair cut there. When I went back, they were talking about other celebs that frequent businesses on Pico, Crenshaw and in Inglewood. We had been thinking about doing a game show then we said why not have it centered around all of the places that you don't think celebrities go.

- Harvey Levin

source: Source: lasentinel.net

topic: Party, Cutting, Thinking, Celebs, Millennium

I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

- Jamie Farr

topic: Game Shows, Gongs

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

topic: Numbers, Games, Lucky, Betting, Game Shows

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

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

topic: Games, Want, Actresses, Game Shows

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

- Sting

source: Song: If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

topic: Games, Politics, Host, Game Shows

I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.

- Michael Moore

source: Michael Moore (2004). “Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!”

topic: Goal, Want, Faces, Stranded, Contestants

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

source: Source: www.theartofgallivanting.com

topic: Horse, Fun, Moving, Game Shows, Horse Racing

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 (of what you're trying to do), 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

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

topic: Running, Thinking, Games, Game Shows

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

topic: Anniversary, Fate, Games, Magpies, Game Shows

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

topic: Girl, Games, Considerate, Be Considerate, Game Shows

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

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

topic: Dream, Blow, Gun, Loaded Gun, Loaded

The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Games, Majority, Sitting, Game Shows

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

topic: Games, Differences, Evil, Moral Authority, Game Shows

They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show.

- Kevin Hearne

topic: Fun, Winning, Games, Camaro, Game Shows

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

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

topic: Games, Years, Acting, Game Shows

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Games, People, Pairs, Game Shows, Dryers

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

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

topic: Jobs, Work, Games, Game Shows, Thomas Raith

I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

- Maury Povich

topic: Games, Host, Quiz, Quiz Show, Game Shows

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

- Bob Barker

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

topic: Games, Ideas, People, Game Shows

I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

- Harry Dean Stanton

topic: Home, Games, Watches, Game Shows

You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.

- Norm MacDonald

topic: Games, Dating, Shows, Game Shows

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

- Paul O'Grady

topic: Games, Dresses, Middle, Middle Aged, Game Shows

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

- Apolo Ohno

topic: Character, Games, Personality, Game Shows

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

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

topic: Reality, Games, Watches, Game Shows

Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

- Bruce Forsyth

topic: Games, Shows, Performers, Game Shows

I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Games, Host, Worst, Game Shows

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Feel Better, Games, Useless, Invisible Monsters, Game Shows

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

- Howie Mandel

source: "Howie Mandel's gamble on 'Deal' pays off". The Associated Press, www.today.com. January 23, 2006.

topic: Games, Roles, Tickets, Game Shows

It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.

- Ben Stein

source: The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

topic: Real, Games, Sitting, Real Me, Game Shows

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

- Wayne Brady

topic: Games, Common Sense, Shows, Game Shows, No Common Sense

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

- John Oliver

source: "John Oliver Slams Media’s Edward Snowden Speculation: ‘Stop Guessing, News Is Not A Game Show’", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2013.

topic: Winning, Games, Car, Game Shows

We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I'm a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center.

- Chuck Woolery

topic: Jobs, Mean, Years, Game Shows, Natural Rights

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

- Gabriel Heatter

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

topic: Being Happy, Games, Host, Game Shows

For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

- D.B.C. Pierre

source: DBC Pierre (2008). “Vernon God Little”, p.269, Faber & Faber

topic: Men, Games, Buzzers, Game Shows

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

- Peter Ackroyd

topic: Drama, Law, Games, Game Shows

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

- Drew Carey

topic: Games, Coal, Shows, Game Shows

I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

- Drew Carey

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

topic: Fun, Games, Totems, Infomercials, Game Shows

You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

- Michael Ian Black

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

topic: Games, Architecture, Cases, Navigate, Contestants