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.

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

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.

Im always happy when Im left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.