Quotes by Regis Philbin - Page 2

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz - they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Coaches
Frank
Loss
Notre Dame
Life Football Me
Attended
Big Difference
Dame
Handled
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I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-story house on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx, and every night at 9:30, I sat by my little radio in our kitchen and listened to a half hour of Bing's records regularly spilling out over WNEW.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Bottom
Bronx
Every Night
Half
Radio
Records
Sat
Six
Spilling
Avenue
Bing
Floor
Hour
Listened
Regularly
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I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Moving On
Impressed
Moving
Retirement
Thinking
Announcement
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I did, of course, eventually find my way into television, taking all kinds of jobs, climbing the ranks rung by rung. Anyway, it was several years later, when I was working nationally in Hollywood as the announcer and second banana on ABC-TV's late-night entry, 'The Joey Bishop Show,' that I had my big moment.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Climbing
Entry
Joey
Late Night
Announcer
Anyway
Banana
Bishop
Ranks
Rung
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Anyone who's ever driven to Atlantic City knows that Trump's got a big billboard. For years, you used to see his angry face on it. I said, 'Trump, that expression is making people afraid to go to the Taj Mahal. Why don't you give them a big smile.? 'C'mon in, folks! Spend your money here!' I think we got that corrected.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Angry
Driven
Folks
Atlantic
Billboard
Corrected
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All through high school and college, my parents would ask me over and over again, 'What are you going to do with your life? What do you want to be?' Well, in my heart I wanted to be a singer like Bing, but I worried about the reality of that dream. Did I think for one minute that I had the voice to pull it off? Of course not.
Regis Philbin / Actor
One Minute
Worried
Bing
High School And College
Minute
Pull
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I see Kathie Lee. She's not angry about anything. She's having the time of her life, and I really mean that, because I watch her carefully. I wonder, too, how she's feeling, you know, whether she misses - after all, it was 15 years getting up every morning and coming down and sitting there with me and doing the show together.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Angry
Sitting
Wonder
Life Time Morning
Carefully
Lee
Misses
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I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it, and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. And when I returned to New York from Los Angeles, I mean, it was make it or not - that was my last chance. And what a great chance it was, to make it in my own hometown.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Hometown
Los Angeles
Upset
Angeles
Failed
Los
Returned
Struggling
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I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and she was one of the first. Before that it was Sarah Purcell then Cindy Garvey. Then Mary Hart, then Cindy Garvey again here in New York, then Anne Abernathy and then Kathy Lee, who stayed 15 years. And now Kelly has been there eight.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Cindy
Eight
Hart
Mary
Me New Who
Anne
Lee
Sarah
Stayed
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I would do the morning show and then just walk over to the network side of the building here at ABC in New York and sit down and start it up again and introduce the 10 contestants, and then introduce the 10 - the fastest finger question, and pick one of them, put them in the seat before you finally got to asking them the questions.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Contestants
Abc
Seat
Fastest
Finger
Introduce
Morning Show
Network
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I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Opportunity
Navy
Notre Dame
Two
Years
Anybody Else
Dame
Letting
Missed
Opportunities
So Many Opportunities
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I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Active
Bloody
Doctors
Reason
Thinking
Vitamins
Years
Pretty
Early
Early Age
Every Day
Number
Gotta
List
Pretty Good
Taking
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You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Jobs
Done
Night
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You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what he'd done the night before. I thought, 'I can do that!' I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Bronx
Night
Talent
Tonight
Used
Job
Talk
Show
Buddies
Corner
Desk
Edge
First Job
Street
Saw
Jack
Page
Sit
Street Corner
Tonight Show
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Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.
Regis Philbin / Actor
Inspirational
New York
Basketball
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