Quotes from Chris Harrison

There are few shows on television as strong and iconic as 'Millionaire.'

The most dangerous thing a Bachelor or Bachelorette can do is zero in on someone early and just shut everybody and everything else out emotionally.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

The 'Bachelor' producers have scripted and are responsible for certain events: the first moon landing, the end of the cold war, Astro-turf, and the Internet (sorry, Al Gore, it was us). But we are not responsible for, nor have we ever scripted, the ending of this show.

Sorry, never been a car guy.

How could anybody possibly have a problem with two people falling in love and finding happiness together?

I'm not really the type of guy that dates out loud, lives out loud.

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

I know it sounds silly, but no one really anticipates just how mentally and emotionally taxing and unbelievably physically grueling it is to be the Bachelor.

Not to get too deep, but I was brought up by these women who if you wanted to label them, maybe they were feminists, but you know what? They never asked for that or wanted it and they never got up on a soapbox and spoke about it, they just did it. They did their work, they did their jobs, they were who they were.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

If I feel like someone is unjustly being attacked, I'll stand up for them. If I feel like someone is lying, then I'm going to call them on it.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

The Bachelor Canada' will be uniquely Canadian in and of itself because you're going to have a 100 percent Canadian cast, you're going to use Canada as a backdrop, you'll be going to all of those iconic places around Canada from coast-to-coast.

If you're falling in love with several people, it's really important to not just continue coasting in the relationships and start taking big steps towards permanence, especially before you're going to meet someone's family.

Note to all men: If you're going to make mention of something that a woman did, like wear cowboy boots, make sure you've got the right woman!

Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.

People destroy relationships because they force unnecessary issues instead of letting it grow naturally and organically. Once somebody feels trapped or forced into something it's only a matter of time before they run.

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

the world is coloured rather than stained by such beliefs,and accepting another's values is far more Christian than falling to your knees every time you see a stained glass window.

Randy young couples in Naples don't even bother with lovers' lanes they simply park on any street and paste the windows with newspaper. A daughter with an encyclopaedic knowledge of current affairs is not something a Neapolitan father brags about. To ensure the undivided attentions of their partner some men prefer to paste the windows with the sports newspaper. Maybe that's why La Gazzetta dello Sport is pink—to enhance the mood.

What's the difference between a strike day and a normal day at an Italian post office? On a strike day they put a sign out front to explain why no one's working.

yelled 'Where's my stick?

I don't always want to wear the same outfit, so why where the same ring?