Game Shows Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Fun, Winning, Games

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five”, p.10, Del Rey

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• 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

  Years, Games, Acting

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

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Games, People, Pairs

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• 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

  Jobs, Work, Games

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

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

  Maury Povich

  Games, Host, Gamer

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

  Bob Barker

  Games, Ideas, People

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

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

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Home, Games, Watches

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

  Norm MacDonald

  Games, Dating, Shows

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

  Paul O'Grady

  Games, Dresses, Middle

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

  Apolo Ohno

  Character, Games, Personality

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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.

  Chuck Barris

  Reality, Games, Watches

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

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

  Bruce Forsyth

  Games, Shows, Performers

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

  Dick Van Dyke

  Games, Host, Worst

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• 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

  Feel Better, Games, Useless

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Howie Mandel

  Games, Roles, Tickets

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

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• 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

  Real, Games, Sitting

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

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

  Wayne Brady

  Games, Common Sense, Shows

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

  John Oliver

  Winning, Games, Car

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

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• 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

  Jobs, Mean, Rights

  "Michele Bachmann At CPAC: Former GOP Candidate Slams Prop 8 Ruling, Meets Chuck Woolery" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• 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

  Funny, Happiness, Being Happy

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

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• 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

  Men, Games, Buzzers

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

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• 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

  Drama, Law, Games

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

  Drew Carey

  Games, Coal, Shows

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• 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

  Fun, Games, Totems

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

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• 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

  Games, Architecture, Cases

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

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