Quotes by 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.”

“Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.”

“You know, you create your opportunities, some of us can create opportunities, and then you have to make a decision.”

“Theres 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.”

“The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but thats that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isnt known as anything. So I guess it isnt so bad in that context.”

“Way to go, Zany.”

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

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