Quotes
Buddy Hackett/Peter O'Toole/William Demarest/Victor Buono
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- 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.
- Buddy Hackett: I don't tell anybody else not to smoke, unless I like 'em. I never told *you*, did I?
- Victor Buono: European chambermaids are very hard to shock / They wait until you're naked, then they enter; then they knock.
- Victor Buono: Life's a stage, the poets prate - a motion picture melodrama / Some of us are Super 8, and some are Cinerama.