"I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age"
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The best move is his shrugging defiance toward expertise. He nods at doctors calling vitamins "ridiculous" and keeps going anyway, not as an anti-science crusader but as a practical apostate: sure, they might be nonsense, but the routine works for him. That "for whatever reason" is the tell. Philbin knows the evidence is fuzzy; he also knows audiences don't live by meta-analyses. They live by stories that feel true.
Then he punches it with showbiz cadence: "Every bloody day!" The mild profanity is doing cultural work, turning a bland wellness habit into a stubborn, almost comic discipline. It reads like a performance of grit, the kind that made him a daytime institution - intimate, emphatic, engineered to sound unscripted.
Context matters: Philbin was a longevity figure in a youth-obsessed medium, a man whose brand was energetic normalcy. Vitamins here are a prop for a larger message: aging is negotiable if you can find one repeatable thing to believe in. The subtext isn't "vitamins will save you". It's "pick your talisman, stick with it, and let consistency masquerade as immortality."
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Philbin, Regis. (2026, January 16). I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-gotta-tell-you-right-at-the-top-of-my-list-116026/
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Philbin, Regis. "I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-gotta-tell-you-right-at-the-top-of-my-list-116026/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-gotta-tell-you-right-at-the-top-of-my-list-116026/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






