Johnny Carson Show Quotes

#1. Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

Criss Angel

#2. The only question which concerns us here is whether these "educated" persons are actually equipped to face the ordeal before them or unconsciously contribute to their own undoing by perpetuating the regime of the oppressor.

Carter G. Woodson

#3. It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

Natalie Merchant

#4. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. - John 14:16 kjv

Gary Chapman

#5. After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

Roseanne Barr

#6. I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

Boris Johnson

#7. If one ... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble ...

Guo Xiang

#8. I've performed on 'The Tonight Show' with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but not at the same time.

Thomas F. Wilson

#9. George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

Johnny Carson

#10. As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

Johnny Carson

#11. My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!

Chaske Spencer

#12. Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

David Letterman

#13. I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

Tony Randall

#14. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

Sarah Dessen

#15. I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

Paul Reubens

#16. Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

Anton Corbijn

#17. I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

Steven Wright

#18. People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Ralph Allen

#19. Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

Nancy Lublin

#20. And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.

Jillian Cantor

#21. The Tonight Show didn't seem like an actual job that you could have. All you remember is you watched Johnny Carson, and you never thought he would retire.

Jimmy Fallon

#22. In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

Garth Brooks

#23. Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

Albert Einstein

#24. When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.

Jimmy Fallon

#25. Don't worry about people, just love them.

Debasish Mridha

#26. But it wasn't a sentimental romance. It was more like a battered estate wagon in which they bounced along together, sometimes cheerfully amused by the same joke, other times grimly tolerating one another and determined to get where they were going.

William Kuhn

#27. In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

Jeff Dunham

#28. And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#29. I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

Ellen DeGeneres

#30. Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.

Johnny Carson

#31. There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!

Johnny Carson