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

- 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

When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age w…

- Chuck Barris

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

- 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

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

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

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

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