Chuck Barris Quotes

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.

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

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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.

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

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