226 Quotes by Johnny Carson

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

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

I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.

Only lie about the future.