A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

No one's on at my time but infomercials.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.