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

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.

Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

If you hang onto something long enough, it will come back in style.. Like ME.

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