Johnny Carson: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Johnny Carson : Our governor - I've said this before - is a very frugal man. Uh, he does not live in the state mansion; he has his own little apartment, walks to work. He is, um... he's cheap, is what he is. And, uh... so he's going to Mexico, and he did not take a first-class flight. He did not even fly coach. What he did - he disguised himself as an illegal alien, and California deported him on a bus this morning, just to save the fare.

• Buddy Hackett : I suffer from non-acrophobia.

  Johnny Carson : What do you mean - non-fear of heights?

  Buddy Hackett : A fear of not being high.

• Johnny Carson : You did tell me that you're on a new diet, and you are now a vegetarian.

  Buddy Hackett : Well, I'm never on a diet - I eat as much as I can hold.

• Peter O'Toole : [recalling his previous appearance on the show]  It was a journey back from Japan.

  Johnny Carson : Right - that was it.

  Peter O'Toole : And we left on Monday... and arrived in the United States on Sunday - which alarmed me.

  Johnny Carson : Yes.

  Peter O'Toole : And coming from Japan, one indeed stops at lots of places - Hawaii and all those. And it coincided - our stopping - with a cocktail hour.

  Johnny Carson : Ah-ha.

  Peter O'Toole : Everywhere we went, it was a cocktail hour. And one doesn't want to be discourteous.