Johnny Carson Giving Quotations

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.

Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.