Chuck Barris Quotes

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

You will be remembered in life only for your passions!

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

Life's not all about money.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

I'm grateful for the experiences I've accumulated. Of course, there are certain things you wish were not on anyone's list of life experiences, but it's a life. It's a good life. And I like what's there.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.