Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Dawson

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Last updated on November 20, 2024.

Richard Dawson was an English-American actor, comedian, and game-show host and panelist in the United States. Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match Game (1973–1978), and as the original host of Family Feud.

English - Actor | November 20, 1932 - June 2, 2012

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It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

Richard Dawson

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

Richard Dawson

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

Richard Dawson

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.

Richard Dawson

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'

Richard Dawson

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.

Richard Dawson

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.

Richard Dawson

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

Richard Dawson

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

Richard Dawson

God bless all the little children in the world.

Richard Dawson

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

Richard Dawson

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.

Richard Dawson

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic.

Richard Dawson

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

Richard Dawson

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

Richard Dawson

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

Richard Dawson

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

Richard Dawson

Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

Richard Dawson

If I never do another thing, I've met the good sweet people of the world.

Richard Dawson

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.

Richard Dawson

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.

Richard Dawson

Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

Richard Dawson

Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Dawson

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