I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.
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.
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.
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.
I've learned my song, and I sing it.
If you look around, you don't see young women wearing furs, you see matronly women wearing furs. Furs are no longer chic.
Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.
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.
Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
Bob won the Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Daytime TV Host on The Price Is Right in the seasons as follows: 1981-82, 1983-84, 1986-87. He won the Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Game Show Host 1987-88, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1999-2000, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007. He also won 2 more in the catagory of Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show in the years of 1995-96 and 1996-97.
Bob was in Washington to meet with congressmen to try to get elephants banned from circuses and traveling shows.
Before she became a game show hostess, Vanna White was one of his former contestants.
Bob is a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
Bob is a huge Civil War buff.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
At the end of every episode of The Price is Right which he hosts he says "Help control the pet population. Have your pat spayed or neutered" and very often follows that up with a casual salute and a "Good-bye everybody."
He was installed into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in early 2004.
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