Quotes
Jonathan Winters/Ellen Corby/Ed Bluestone/Bud Greenspan
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Johnny Carson: Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan split the GOP races - each of 'em won three states. On the Democratic side, Jimmy Carter won three states, Frank Church won two, and Jerry Brown won one state, which means one thing: The voters are confused.
- Johnny Carson: I like Jerry Ford, but let's be honest - he is not the most electrifying public speaker you've ever seen in your life. He gave a speech in Boise, Idaho yesterday, and a bag of potatoes closed their eyes.
- Johnny Carson: I'm off the sauce, too; yes - you know that. I joined you...
- Jonathan Winters: I just have a little shaving lotion on... just a little somethin'. Just a little - touch the tongue, you know, and...
- Jonathan Winters: I was a strange child. Yeah. I used to get up on the top of the barn, with the pigeons...
- [recalls imitating the sound of pigeons]
- Jonathan Winters: [on visiting his Ohio hometown] They've had some tornadoes, which took the majority of the fish away... Uh... khyoom!... And that will take every bit of line, you know? "Hey - boy, that was a - man, I hooked on that one."
- Jonathan Winters: [on visiting a friend in his hometown] I said, "Well, uh, I'm in television, Wally." He said, "You know, Ruth Anne's got a Zenith; I wonder if you'd take a look at it?"
- Ellen Corby: I think life's too short to throw it away. I think that if you live long enough - which, apparently, I have - you have to enjoy it, because I'm not sure if it's - how many times around, but it might be just one, and boy, you better enjoy it.
- Johnny Carson: You have another trip planned? Someplace you'd like to visit, you've never been?
- Ellen Corby: Uh... well, yes and no. Yes and no. I want to go back to India, and I want to go back to other places that I've been. I think the second time around is more interesting. Because the first time, you do the tourist bit, and the second time you know where you're going.
- Ed Bluestone: [on his neighbors] We have women in their 80s who I feel no rapport with. I always start conversations the wrong way. You can't say, "Did you know Wild Bill Hickok? Were you fooled by the Trojan Horse?"
- Ed Bluestone: I have an unusual shrink - he's very religious. Like, before every session, he thanks God that I'm crazy.
- Bud Greenspan: The idea of the Olympic Games, of course, is dedication, endurance, and - and we think that the guy that comes in second, even the guy that comes in tenth, spends as much time as the fellow that wins the gold medal. He, too, should be honored; we - we honor them in "The Persistent Ones".
- Bud Greenspan: [on Hungarian shooter Károly Takács, who lost his shooting hand in military training] For two years, he was training with his left hand; he wins the gold medal with his left hand in 1948. And it's - it's just - that's the Olympic spirit to me; that's what it's all about.
- Bud Greenspan: I think it's courage, and endurance, and dedication - and that's, to me, is what the Olympic Games is - not winners and losers, but dedication.