I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
Johnny CarsonThere was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."
Johnny CarsonI have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.
Johnny CarsonAmericans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and by the network brass - if you joke about doctors, lawyers, dentists, scientists, bus drivers, I don't care who. You can't make a joke about Catholics, Negroes, Jews, Italians, politicians, dogs or cats. In fact, politicians, dogs and cats are the most sacred institutions in America.
Johnny Carson