Martindale Quotes

#1. I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always ... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

Guy Fieri

#2. And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall ...

Rick Bragg

#3. The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth.

Eric J. Martindale

#4. I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good.

Wink Martindale

#5. I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.

Wink Martindale

#6. I'm from East Texas, yes.

Margo Martindale

#7. One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.

Kari Martindale

#8. You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile.

Eric J. Martindale

#9. So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.

Wink Martindale

#10. When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money.

Wink Martindale

#11. I love Kentucky people, but you have to get on the inside before they accept you.

Margo Martindale

#12. I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Margo Martindale

#13. Diplomas are ill-purposed. What should be celebrated is not the culmination of twelve years sitting in a school desk; what an 18-year-old should be recognized for is making it through young adulthood without getting herself killed.

Kari Martindale

#14. The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.

Kari Martindale

#15. The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work.

Wink Martindale

#16. I have a studio at home, and do 3 hours a day that way.

Wink Martindale

#17. Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy.

Eric J. Martindale

#18. It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully.

Wayne Martindale

#19. It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa.

Kari Martindale

#20. And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun.

Wink Martindale

#21. Regis has a great rapport with the American public.

Wink Martindale

#22. I love doing what I do.

Wink Martindale

#23. In order for me to have fun, I have to be able to not be buttoned down.

Margo Martindale

#24. Texas people are very open, because it's open.

Margo Martindale

#25. Radio is immediate.

Wink Martindale

#26. The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations.

Eric J. Martindale

#27. You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

Wink Martindale

#28. I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.

Wink Martindale

#29. And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.

Margo Martindale

#30. we seem to be on a constant quest to keep America a country of citizens who can only talk to one another

Kari Martindale