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Regis Philbin Quotes

I think there’s a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

– Regis Philbin

I take a week here. Maybe 10 days there. I never took a longer vacation than that.

– Regis Philbin

Three coaches at Notre Dame made a big difference in my life, not that I played any football when I attended Notre Dame. But Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz – they all made a difference to me, and I respected them for their attitudes about life and how they handled loss.

– Regis Philbin

I guess people wonder if I’m the same on camera as I am off, and I’m pretty much the same, I really am. But that’s always asked of me.

– Regis Philbin

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they’d love to have? Tell me that.

– Regis Philbin

I realized there was a difference between a syndicated morning show and prime time. ‘Regis saved the network!’ I used to walk around saying that. I was a big man! I was a giant!

– Regis Philbin

I would do the morning show and then just walk over to the network side of the building here at ABC in New York and sit down and start it up again and introduce the 10 contestants, and then introduce the 10 – the fastest finger question, and pick one of them, put them in the seat before you finally got to asking them the questions.

– Regis Philbin

I had so many local shows before I came back to New York, which is the ideal place to do a national syndicated show. Then I spent five years trying to convince people to give me a shot in the syndication business.

– Regis Philbin

I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It’s got that feel to it, that’s what I wanted.

– Regis Philbin

I’m moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn’t clear. If people think you’re leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they’re coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I’m just moving on right now.

– Regis Philbin

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn’t have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, ‘Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent… and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

– Regis Philbin

The shock I had, from moving from L.A. to New York, you know, whether you live in an apartment, whether you like to or not, it’s cramped, it’s crowded and it needs – guess what – a renovation.

– Regis Philbin

A lot of guys really I get the feeling don’t care whether you like their show or not, you know. I want people to enjoy what I do, and understand what I’m doing is for their enjoyment, it’s all I can ask for.

– Regis Philbin

Regis can do anything these young punks can do. I fit right in there with my Fox people. They want Regis to dance, Regis will dance. They want Regis to lift weights with them, Regis will lift weights with them. Whatever they want!

– Regis Philbin

I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business.

– Regis Philbin

What’s so wonderful about being 6’3″. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

– Regis Philbin

As a matter of fact I don’t like politics. I really don’t. I think it’s so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

– Regis Philbin

I see Kathie Lee. She’s not angry about anything. She’s having the time of her life, and I really mean that, because I watch her carefully. I wonder, too, how she’s feeling, you know, whether she misses – after all, it was 15 years getting up every morning and coming down and sitting there with me and doing the show together.

– Regis Philbin

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they’re going, what they’re going to say, what the situation is. These things just don’t happen and you know that.

– Regis Philbin

I like Strahan a lot. I’ve known him for years. He was a Giant here – in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He’s very funny. He’s got a great sense of humor.

– Regis Philbin

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

– Regis Philbin

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.

– Regis Philbin

All my life, all I’ve wanted to do was a talk show, and I’ve done it for most of my life. Now to break away from that is kind of a challenge.

– Regis Philbin

All through high school and college, my parents would ask me over and over again, ‘What are you going to do with your life? What do you want to be?’ Well, in my heart I wanted to be a singer like Bing, but I worried about the reality of that dream. Did I think for one minute that I had the voice to pull it off? Of course not.

– Regis Philbin

Kathie Lee and I were working together on our ‘Live’ morning show when she started dating Frank. I always loved trying to get her to tell me about her new romance, and it wasn’t long before we were watching them take their vows in front of close friends in Southhampton.

– Regis Philbin

It’s almost seems as though there’s a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it’s very tasty food.

– Regis Philbin

I’m involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

– Regis Philbin

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it, and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. And when I returned to New York from Los Angeles, I mean, it was make it or not – that was my last chance. And what a great chance it was, to make it in my own hometown.

– Regis Philbin

I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-story house on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx, and every night at 9:30, I sat by my little radio in our kitchen and listened to a half hour of Bing’s records regularly spilling out over WNEW.

– Regis Philbin

I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and she was one of the first. Before that it was Sarah Purcell then Cindy Garvey. Then Mary Hart, then Cindy Garvey again here in New York, then Anne Abernathy and then Kathy Lee, who stayed 15 years. And now Kelly has been there eight.

– Regis Philbin

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