Bob Barker Quotes

• You can’t fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

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• Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.

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• Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

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• Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.

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• I’m a vegetarian – I think there’s a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.

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• I’ll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there’s no substitute for experience. I don’t care how much natural talent you may have… In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

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• I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

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• I can tell you that I’d rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I’ve known.

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Bob Barker (8)

Birth:	12th December, 1923
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Anchor, Television Presenter, Television Producer

About

Bob Barker was born in Darrington, Washington. He is an American former television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1974. In 1950, Barker moved to California in order to pursue a career in broadcasting. He was given his own radio show, The Bob Barker Show, which ran for the next six years from Burbank.[1] Barker began his game show career in 1956, hosting Truth or Consequences. From there, he hosted various game shows as well as the Miss Universe pageants. Eventually, he hosted The Price Is Right, beginning in 1972. In 2007, Barker retired from hosting The Price Is Right after celebrating his 50-year career on television.

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