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I like game shows.
I don't do game shows.
I'm not big on game shows.
After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
You can't do anything else once you do game shows. You have no career.
Game shows are like golf and tennis are for some men. It's not like going to work.
For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.
I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows.
I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.
I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.
I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.
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.
I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
I paid a price for being on game shows and that was not being taken seriously. But so what? I did what I did and I was glad. But it's a strange form of immortality.
In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought of me as that, and not as a theater person.
Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think there's opportunity and chances that we can have good conversations as far as an extension's concerned.
When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.
Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the '90s. It's like, 'Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky's the limit with what you can do?'
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
The great part of appearing on game shows is that when you answer a question the camera takes a close-up of you every time. You get more close-ups than in a movie, and that's terrific for audience identification. The people have to see you to like you.
I found myself trying to work within the Los Angeles system. I had an agent and a manager, which I still do, and going to meetings with networks about game shows and reality shows and projects that weren't mine. It was fun, but it wasn't what I'd set out to do.
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.
The rules of game shows limit stuff so much. I remember on 'Money From Strangers,' being in the van - not even performing - and there was a lawyer there the entire time. 'No, you can't give money for that. Yes, you can give money for that. That's a partial answer. That's a full answer.'
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.