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 he…

- Chuck Barris

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

- Chuck Barris

The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were g…

- Chuck Barris

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

- Chuck Barris

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if yo…

- Chuck Barris

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

The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting out. There was plastics and …

- Chuck Barris

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for…

- 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 S…

- Chuck Barris