Quotes by Chuck Barris

About Chuck Barris:

Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris is an American game show creator, producer, and host. He is best known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He is also a songwriter, who wrote the hit "Palisades Park" for Freddy Cannon and the author of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, his autobiography, which became a film directed by George Clooney.
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Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

Chuck Barris

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. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Chuck Barris

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

Chuck Barris

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 who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Chuck Barris

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 does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Chuck Barris

Author Bio

  • NameChuck Barris
  • DescriptionAmerican game show creator, producer, and host
  • BornJune 3, 1929
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director