The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

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.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

He made me feel wanted - good about myself, even. Like he immediately accepted me for me, no questions asked.

Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.