Richard Dawson Quotes & Sayings

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

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

God bless all the little children in the world. — Richard Dawson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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