Quiz Show Quotes

• My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Beach, Lying, Moving

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• Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."

  Astra Taylor

  America, People, Rose

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Ideas, True Romance

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• I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

  Charles Van Doren

  Evil, Good And Evil, I've Learned

  "Fictional character: Charles Van Doren". "Quiz Show", 1994.

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• He engañado a mis amigos, y tenía millones de ellos.

  Charles Van Doren

  Deceived, My Friends, Millions

  "Quiz Show". 1994.

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• ¿Hacer trampas en un concurso? Es como plagiar un cómic.

  Paul Scofield

  Cheating, Comic, Quiz

  "Personaje de ficción: Mark Van Doren". "Quiz Show", www.imdb.com. 23 de septiembre de 1994.

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• If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

  Mark Van Doren

  Gambling, Looks, Tables

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• Unos se levantan por el pecado, y otros por la virtud caen.

  William Shakespeare

  Caída, Memorable, Pecado

  1603 Escalus. Medida por medida, acto 2, sc.1, l.38.

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• Soy presentador de un concurso, pero nunca me he considerado presentador de un concurso.

  Maury Povich

  Juegos, Anfitrión, Jugador

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• Si hiciéramos la Segunda Venida de Cristo en color durante una hora entera, habría un número considerable de emisoras que se negarían a retransmitirla alegando que sería más rentable una película del Oeste o un concurso de preguntas y respuestas.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Color, Agravación, Números

  "Prime Time: La vida de Edward R. Murrow". Libro de Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• Doing TV shows helps me a lot in my screenplay writing and filmmaking, especially since my TV shows are in different formats: comedy sketches, talk shows, debate programs, art variety shows, quiz shows. These enable me to meet interesting people with interesting stories and to learn about interesting subjects, all of which I can reflect into film.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Art, Writing, Tv Shows

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!

  Frankie Boyle

  Divertido, Muro, Humor

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• This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.

  Dave Barry

  Cheating, Thinking, Years

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• Lo que más me gusta en el mundo es un concurso de preguntas y respuestas, 'University Challenge', para que veas qué clase de persona triste soy.

  Lynne Truss

  Desafíos, Mundo, Persona Triste

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• I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.

  Nick Lowe

  Writing, Character, Stripes

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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• Si nos fijamos en los concursos de humor, la mayoría están protagonizados por hombres.

  Jo Brand

  Hombres, Tablas, Miradas

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