Herb Stempel
Charles Van Doren — he wouldn't know the answer to a doorbell if you didn't give it to him.
Played by John Turturro 
Quiz Show (1994) · 19 quotes
Quiz Show (1994) · 19 quotes
You know why they call them Indians? Because Columbus thought he was in India. They're Indians because some white guy got lost.
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Herb Stempel
This week on Twenty One, watch Herb Stempel be fed to the Columbia lions. Watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal on Twenty One.
Herb Stempel
[To a reporter outside the Congressional hearing room]
You know what the problem with you bums is? You never leave a guy alone unless you're leaving him alone.
Herb Stempel
[To his wife]
You wanna be worshipped? Go to India and moo.
Herb Stempel
You want to know what? If I do nothing else I will convince them that Herbert Stempel knows what won the goddamned Academy Award for best picture of 1955; that's what I'm gonna accomplish.
Herb Stempel
[Referring to television]
That box is the biggest thing since Gutenberg invented the printing press, and I'm the biggest thing on it.
Herb Stempel
And they love me for the same reason they used to hate me, because I'm the guy who knows everything.
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Don't do this to me, it's humiliating.
Dan Enright
For seventy grand, Herb, you can afford to be humiliated.
Toby Stempel
My mother want to know why you only went for eight on the movies.
Herb Stempel
Because my real expertise is pain-in-the-ass in-laws, all right?
