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

- 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 he…

- Chuck Barris

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

- 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 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

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

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 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

I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would always have liked to play i…

- Chuck Barris