Chuck Barris When you're in a relationship it means you are obligated to give a shit.
Most-quoted character in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002): in 17 of its 25 quotes
Most scenes with: Jim Byrd (4)
When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.
More lines from Chuck Barris
7 quotes Chuck Barris Chuck Barris I don't know what was worse - that I was duped by that fat **** bachelor, or that it took seven of us to replace him.
Chuck Barris Go back to Scotland! Get yourself some Guinness, some Lucky Charms.
Chuck Barris Life was sweet... For a minute.
Chuck Barris I'm not killing people... my future's in television.
Chuck Barris My name is Charles Prescott Barris. I have written pop songs, I have been a television producer. I am responsible for polluting the airwaves with mindnumbing, puerile entertainment. In addition, I have murdered 33 human beings. [types on a typewriter: I am damned to hell]
Chuck Barris I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.
Scenes with Chuck Barris
9 scenes Chuck Barris Hi, folks. Before we begin taping today, I'd like to introduce you to Mr. Peter Jenks of the Federal Communications Commission. Okay?
Peter Jenks
I don't know if any of you are aware of this, but it's a federal offense to make lascivious remarks on a television network broadcast. The penalty for this disgusting, un-American behavior is one year in prison, or a ten thousand dollar fine. Or both! Anyone making a sick or subversive remark tonight will be arrested immediately. I then will personally escort the offender to federal prison for booking under edict number 364 of the Broadcasting Act of 1963. And it's a long drive to that prison, baby, just you and me. No witnesses.
Chuck Barris OK, have fun, everybody... all right...
Chuck Barris [after Byrd tells Chuck to kill the unknown "mole"]
Hey, I got an idea. If you aren't so bad... why don't you do it? Why don't you kill the mole? You got a problem with killing, Jim?
I just don't fit the profile.
Chuck Barris What **** profile? There is no **** profile.
Okay, there's no profile.
Chuck Barris There's no profile.
Okay. Let's see. Well, you had a twin sister, stillborn, strangled by your umbilical cord. Your first hit, Chuck. Your mother always wanted a daughter. She blamed you for your sister's death. And, so, until your sister Phoebe was born, she raised you as a girl. Oh, and your father the dentist? Not really your father. Your biological father was a man named Edmund James Windsor. A serial killer. A fact your mother didn't know when she had an affair with him in 1930. If you want to look him up, he was also known as the Tarrytown Troll, because he had been described by witnesses as short and ugly. Windsor died in the electrical chair at Ossining in 1939. We believed your self-loathing tendencies coupled with that extra Y chromosome and whatever else you inherited from your father would serve us well. I'm trying to think what more I can tell you, but you have me at a disadvantage here, Barris. I don't have your files in front of me.
Penny
What are you?
Chuck Barris Jew.
Penny Pacino
Oh, I had one of those once. But he was separatist. He was Ashka Nazi.
Chuck Barris Ashkenazi.
Penny Pacino
Right, Ashka Nazi. I haven't had one of those yet.
Chuck Barris You're a romantic.
Simon Oliver
You are a bloody amateur.
Chuck Barris You're a ****.
Chuck.
Simon Oliver
Tell me, Mr. Barris, are you in possession of my microfilm?
Chuck Barris Yeah, I got it.
Simon Oliver
Let's have it, then.
Chuck Barris It's up my ass, Oliver, why don't you reach on up there and get it?
He's a bad guy. He's one of the bad guys.
Chuck Barris Bad for the US, right, Jim? Not bad in the absolute sense. Just bad for the US.
Don't ****in' dance with me. Renda's bad for the Tea & Biscuit Company. He's bad for me personally. You work for me. Renda's bad for me... You're now officially a patriotic citizen of the United States of Jim Byrd. There's no backing out now. We let you in on everything. You don't play. You don't leave. You understand that? You don't play... You don't leave.
Penny Pacino
Do you want me around or not? Do you even like me?
Chuck Barris Of course I like you! Penny...
Penny Pacino
How much?
Chuck Barris What?
Penny Pacino
I need to know how much you like me.
Chuck Barris I know what that means! How much? How could I read a person in that way?
Penny Pacino
You could if you felt it. If you felt it, it would be easy. You would [sighs dreamingly] ...just spread your arms as wide as they would go and say: "This much, Penny."
Chuck Barris Everything... everything is complicated. Nothing is black and white like that.
Penny Pacino
[cries]
Do you want me around or not? 'Cause if you don't it's okay, just tell me.
Chuck Barris Hey, hey... [kisses her] I love you, Penny. In my way. Maybe not that crazy head-over-heels-thing, but what is that anyway? Romantic love, isn't that just an illusion?
Penny Pacino
[stops crying]
You just said you love me, right?
Chuck Barris [getting the idea for "The Gong Show"]
We've been going about this all wrong. Rather than killing ourselves trying to find good acts... we just put on bad ones and kill them!
Casting Executive Man
Chuck, honestly, this... and I know you like them... this is torture.
Chuck Barris No, no, no. We kill them before they're through. As soon as it gets unbearable... we kill 'em... dead!
Chuck Barris I've got important things to think about here. I don't have time to **** around with you.
Okay, I'll help you out with your little show. Tit for tat. That's the kinda guy I am. I've seen this "Dating Game" of yours, Chuck. And I have a thought.
Chuck Barris What, now you're a television producer?
Hey, I'm John Q. Public when it comes to TV and that should make my opinion of interest to you.
Chuck Barris [nods]
Let's hear it then.
Well, what do you have now? The couple gets sent to some stupid second-rate Hollywood shitcan restaurant, right? Sets you back fifty bucks? That's not too exciting a prize to us vicarious living boobs out in TV-land.
Chuck Barris Yeah, what's your point?
Up the stakes, Chuckles. Send 'em to some exotic locale. Europe, Southeast Asia, for example.
Chuck Barris The network's not going to let me send two unmarried kids on vacation together.
Send 'em with a chaperone.
Chuck Barris [beat]
You know... that's not half bad.
I'm telling ya. And sometimes you can be the chaperone, Chuckie. Let's say we have a job for you in Austria. You, a successful TV producer, above suspicion, chaperones the young couple, and while you're there, you take care of some Company business. It's the perfect cover. TV producer by day, CIA operative by night.
Chuck Barris I told you, I don't have to kill people for money anymore.
Chuck, when I said you fit our profile, very little of that had to do with you needing the money. Some of it, but very little. You liked it with Renda, Chuck. I saw it in your eyes. You liked it but you botched it. Don't you want to get really good at something, Chuck?
Pretty Woman
Hi.
Chuck Barris Hi.
Pretty Woman
I thought it was you.
Chuck Barris [smiles and bows]
It's me.
Pretty Woman
I'm glad to meet you because I wanted to tell you that I've seen "The Gong Show" and I think you are the most insidious and despicable force in entertainment today.
Chuck Barris Well...
Pretty Woman
How dare you subject the rest of the world to your loathsome view of humanity.
Chuck Barris I don't think it's that loathsome.
Pretty Woman
What is it then? To mock some poor, lonely people who just crave a little attention in their lives. To destroy them. So everybody's not brilliantly talented. They're still people. They deserve respect and compassion. I mean, who the hell are you? What the **** have you ever done that elevates you above the pathetic masses? Oh, I forgot, you created "The Dating Game". Wow, right up there with the Sistine Chapel.
