Collected Meditations
Showing 27 quotesThe mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.— 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
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.— 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
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.— 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
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.— Johnny Carson
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 Carson
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.— Johnny Carson
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.— Johnny Carson
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Happiness