Carson Quotes

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

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.

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

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

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.

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

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.

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.