Game Show Quotes

#1. Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

Richard Madden

#2. And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Joan Collins

#3. Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

Nate Corddry

#4. The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Terence

#5. I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.

Kate Micucci

#6. Daphne, whatever you could think of in your wildest imagination, there is a game for it and probably has been for a thousand years.' He pulled off his shirt and advanced on her. 'For example, there is the lovely lady taken up against the wall game. I'll show you how it is played.

Madeline Hunter

#7. I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Jeff Foxworthy

#8. I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

Romola Garai

#9. As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Randy West

#10. Not always. Sometimes it's ass, Vince said, cleverly bringing ass back into the conversation one more time. I began to wonder if there was a hidden camera, with a smirking game-show host handing out a prize every time we used the word.

Jeff Lindsay

#11. Do you ever wish you knew the answers on jeopardy ahead of time so you could win a million dollars too? A coach gives you that kind of edge. And instead of a TV game show you'll be winning at life.

Michael McGovern

#12. I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

Lev Grossman

#13. As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

Jim Cramer

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

Norm MacDonald

#15. News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

John Oliver

#16. Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots ... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster.

Tony Verna

#17. I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don't want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We're hot.

Janet Evanovich

#18. When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#19. Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

John F. Kennedy

#20. 'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

Tom Shales

#21. Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

Douglas Rushkoff

#22. The town formerly known as St. Louis is now 'Defiance.' The scope of the show and game is going to be massive because you have the people who love the genre of gaming who love sci-fi; they're in bed together, normally.

Tony Curran

#23. 'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

Peter Dinklage

#24. It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

Michel Patini

#25. On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.

Maisie Williams

#26. Any physical practice can be a competitive sport. What level you can take postures to create the maximum challenge and show your maximum skill, maximum control - it's not a combat game. It's a benefit to you.

Rajashree Choudhury

#27. Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

Sting

#28. In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

Brooke Burke

#29. Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

Michael Ian Black

#30. 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

#31. I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I've seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#33. The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?

Warren Leight

#34. I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

Yani Tseng

#35. I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.

Mo'Nique

#36. I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

George Orwell

#37. If I was on Game of Thrones, I think the nudity and sex questions would probably get irritating, but this is a show about sex.

Lizzy Caplan

#38. A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.

Marc Laidlaw

#39. I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

Ruby Wax

#40. Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.

Terry Pratchett

#41. I play both X-Box 360 and Playstation 3. I prefer X-Box 360, but they don't have 'MLB - The Show,' so I have to play every other game on the X-Box.

Mo Williams

#42. You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.

Alex Graves

#43. I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

Jamie Farr

#44. I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

David Raiklen

#45. Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Thomas Sadoski

#46. Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.

Boyd Rice

#47. I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.

Drew Carey

#48. Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan
That's the fate of every Magpie
While Mam perfects her game show skills
Giving talks at the WI

John Walter Bratton

#49. For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

J. C. Watts

#50. For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

D.B.C. Pierre

#51. I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.

Dick Van Dyke

#52. 'Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

Gwendoline Christie

#53. This game could last for days if I keep going unconscious."
"Or it could be over very quickly."
Lev takes a deep breath and tries not to show any more fear than he has to. "Sounds exciting. I'm in.

Neal Shusterman

#54. This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

Colleen Haskell

#55. Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're kind of a side show.
(on Manchester City)

Claudio Reyna

#56. Sartre claimed that hell is other people," I said. "He never saw no TV game show," Hawk said.

Robert B. Parker

#57. I have some very special guests tonight, and I would like to give a big welcome to the Wayne State men and women's rugby team for coming to the game tonight and to be on my TV Show

Mark Cuban

#58. Welcome, welcome to Caraval! The grandest show on land or by sea. Inside you'll experience more wonders than most people see in a lifetime. You can sip magic from a cup and buy dreams in a bottle. But before you fully enter into our world, you must remember it's all a game.

Stephanie Garber

#59. If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Gabriel Heatter

#60. The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.

Karl Schroeder

#61. Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

Craig Charles

#62. I'm hooked on 'Game of Thrones.' I'm a fan of the books and the show.

Michael McMillian

#63. I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.

Jason Dohring

#64. It wasn't easy, but I endured. There were stories about a land filled with trees, and game, where there were no wars or disease. I wish I could show you how beautiful this land was. After spending a lifetime in Europe, it was Eden.

Rebecca Trogner

#65. The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

Ray Wise

#66. 'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.

Randy West

#67. You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

Wm. Paul Young

#68. I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.

Michael Chang

#69. I'd love to host a game show one day. I love giving things away.

Ross Mathews

#70. I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I'm going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.

Robert Griffin III

#71. Harvard coach Bill Reid would later credit Teddy Roosevelt with saving football. But words in a rule book are one thing. Someone had to show the nation a new way to play the game. The Carlisle Indians did that.

Steve Sheinkin

#72. No one calls me Sammy. My mother occasionally throws a "Samuel", but I am, and have always been, just Sam. Sammy is a name for five-year-olds and game show hosts and Shinny Happy People.
I am, definitely, not a Sammy

Melissa Keil

#73. I'd like to guest star on 'Game of Thrones.' I love period pieces and dark material. I think the show has a good balance of that and some solid characters.

Kyle Schmid

#74. Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen free
Show yourself, you're scaring me
Come out, come out, where ever you are
You've taken this thing way too far

Sonya Sones

#75. There are a lot of things going into making a movie. So many things can go wrong. So many people that need to show up and bring their "A" game. If one thing is out of place, the whole movie can fall apart.

Jonah Hill

#76. Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.

Kevin Spacey

#77. Your house, huh?"
"I've seen yours, I think it's time I show you mine."
"Ya know, when people say that, they're not usually talking about houses."
He chuckled. "Yeah, but we've already played that game. We can play it again later, if you like.

Sable Grace

#78. It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

Conan O'Brien

#79. Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

Bryan Callen

#80. All right, team ... This is our first game of the season ... If we all show the right spirit, I think we can win this one. Let's try to encourage each other ... Let's hear a little chatter out there, okay?"
"YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, KID!

Charles M. Schulz

#81. I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

Joss Whedon

#82. Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So as a 'Dating Game' bachelor, I didn't know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time.

Seth Shostak

#83. When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

Harold Prince

#84. Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich

Robert Kiyosaki

#85. I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

Colleen Haskell

#86. We can't be happy all the time. If we were we wouldn't be people, we would be game show hosts.

Laurence O'Keefe

#87. We're all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? I've just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.

Justin Tuck

#88. I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

Michael Jordan

#89. As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.

Michael Ian Black

#90. I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

Maury Povich

#91. All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.

Pauly Shore

#92. I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.

Harry Dean Stanton

#93. I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

Ray Lewis

#94. Anyone who thinks women talk too much has never sat through a six hour Super Bowl pre-game show.

Nora Barry

#95. Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#96. In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.

Johan Santana

#97. Churches won't work with you, though, just out of the goodness of their hearts. They'll talk a good game-a sermon on Sunday, maybe, or a special offering for the homeless. But if push comes to show, they won't really move unless you can show them how it'll help them pay their heating bill.

Barack Obama

#98. Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

Michael Weatherly

#99. Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure - in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.

Tedd Tripp

#100. I found the support inside Old Trafford has been terrific and, if there was ever a show of support for the football club and team, it was in this game. Inside Old Trafford it was terrific, it really was.

David Moyes