Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

There comes a time or a moment when you know in which direction you're going to go. I know it happened to me when I was quite young.

Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

I was going to hang it up on the twenty-fifth year of this show. I don't know why. Maybe twenty-five years is enough. And I found out that I was having so much fun doing the show that we decided to stick around for a while.

Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

We're more effective than birth control pills.