Quote

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?

Johnny Carson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
Actor
Host
Journalist
Magician
Military Officer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Presenter
Writer
Corning
Iowa
John William Carson
Carson
The Great Carsoni
Information
Public
Gone
Actually
Report
Night
Reports
Much
Consists
National
News

More quotes by Johnny Carson

Image
I'm an entertainer I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.
Johnny Carson
Image
Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.
Johnny Carson
Image
Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.
Johnny Carson
Image
Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.
Johnny Carson
Image
I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.
Johnny Carson
Image
The only issue cash presents you is the independence of not stressing about funds.
Johnny Carson
Image
Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized.
Johnny Carson
Image
As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.
Johnny Carson
Image
It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.
Johnny Carson
Image
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.
Johnny Carson
Image
Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.
Johnny Carson
Image
May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!
Johnny Carson
Image
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson
Image
Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.
Johnny Carson
Image
I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, I guess you're so big we bore you now.
Johnny Carson
Image
If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.
Johnny Carson
Image
I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.
Johnny Carson
Image
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
Johnny Carson
Image
Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.
Johnny Carson
Image
Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.
Johnny Carson