Contestant's Quotes

#1. In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

Gretchen Carlson

#2. This is it." Morgan gestured to the French doors like she was modeling a prize on a game show. "Here we have door number one. Will it lead our contestant to the dog-faced man of her dreams? Or will she find an axe-wielding psychopath? Stay tuned.

Cole Gibsen

#3. I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

Naima Adedapo

#4. They warn us when we're kids that we're going to have to suffer, but they neglect to mention the indignity. What self-respecting fetus, if shown its future as a proctology patient, boot-camp recruit, or game show contestant, would still elect to be born?

Tom Robbins

#5. From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

Randy West

#6. Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

Padma Lakshmi

#7. High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with an unlikely Oscar.

Dennis Vickers

#8. I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.

Marco Rubio

#9. It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.

Fleur East

#10. It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#11. It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.

Gillian Flynn

#12. Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie.

Yossi Shain

#13. I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10 ...

Diana DeGarmo

#14. My cholesterol went from 220 to 149. I was crying like a 'Biggest Loser' contestant when my doctor gave me the news.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#15. Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

Randy West

#16. And all the while she shoveled forkfuls into her mouth like a pie-eating contestant in the home stretch.

Cathy Skendrovich

#17. It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.

Monty Hall

#18. I never pass a Dairy Queen without stopping. I cannot stand tucked-in sheets. I was once a contestant on 'The Price is Right.'

Brian Shactman

#19. As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

Randy West

#20. I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!

Randy West

#21. I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

Olly Murs

#22. I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that's who I am,

Bristol Palin

#23. Breathed like a contestant in a polka marathon, sit-up contest, stationary bike race.

Dennis Vickers

#24. I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.

Alex Trebek

#25. It was a race he was running now, a race between his rent money and ... he did not know the name of the other contestant. Perhaps it was every man whom he passed on the street.

Ayn Rand

#26. You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

Michael Ian Black

#27. In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

Zhuangzi

#28. Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Bob Iger

#29. Linda Heavner Gerald has been selected as a contestant in the Author's Show!

Linda Heavner Gerald

#30. I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.

Rob Mariano

#31. You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.

Norm MacDonald

#32. He was witnessing an insane relay race in which each contestant ran faster and longer than the last, arriving nowhere but his own destruction

John Le Carre