Quotes
Robert Mitchum/Dick Van Patten/George Miller/Dennis Madalone
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Johnny Carson: [looking at Tommy's green jacket] Doc is a fashion plate, but look what's happening - he's gettin' into your territory!
- Doc Severinsen: I think that's in honor of The Masters.
- Johnny Carson: That's right - The Masters golf tournament is on. You know - you know the winner gets the green jacket every year?
- Tommy Newsom: I'm ready.
- Johnny Carson: You're ready for the *Old* Masters.
- Johnny Carson: Israel's prime minister Menachem Begin just ordered a new settlement built on Vanessa Redgrave.
- Johnny Carson: I don't want sympathy - I want laughs!... But you can tell...
- Doc Severinsen: Better take the sympathy.
- Johnny Carson: Can you imagine Jerry Brown as president? He'd be the first - he'd be the first president with a classified mantra.
- Dennis Madalone: I did a 80-footer off a ski lift, hanging.
- Johnny Carson: 80-footer?
- Dennis Madalone: Yeah - a ski lift dropped, and I went 80 feet into two stacks of boxes under snow. So that kinda aired me out for a week - I couldn't eat pretzels.
- Johnny Carson: What - could I ask you what they pay you for, uh...
- Dennis Madalone: Uh... they pay us pretty well.
- Johnny Carson: Well, that's more than I thought it was.
- Dennis Madalone: [on getting his first job without a guild card after first being sent away] I went into the men's room on the fifth story, and I opened the window and climbed along the ledge, outside, looking at these cars go by. And I just popped open the producer's window, and dove in and crashed and rolled, and I said, "Gimme a break! I got to be in show business!"
- Robert Mitchum: [on his new neighborhood in Montecito] You know, it's pretty social. And, uh, there seems to be sort of a - an endless series of parties. And, uh, if you can avoid that, you know - if you can; it's not easy, because it's, uh... a lot of liver cases up there.
- Robert Mitchum: [on his sentence for a marijuana conviction] I did sixty days, up at the honor farm mainly - it was like Palm Springs without the riff-raff.
- Robert Mitchum: When I hear people delineating - you know, the, the, uh... the, the, the... mystique of, uh, acting, and I have to keep hammering myself in the head - especially movie acting - and I have to keep reminding myself that one of the greatest movie stars that ever lived was Rin Tin Tin.
- Dick Van Patten: [on acting on Broadway at age 9] I was always taught, as a kid, that if you ever hear the Lord's name in vain, you must always bow your head - like that. And I know, you know - and I always did that. But Josh Logan and - and, uh, Richard Bennett used to swear and curse at each other during all these rehearsals, you know? And I used to sit there in the rehearsal, going like this!
- Dick Van Patten: [bobs his head up and down]
- George Miller: I went to school in Seattle - I attended the University of Washington, a wonderful school; I majored in registration.
- George Miller: [on a childhood friend] You know how mean kids can be - "Fatty, fatty, two by four, can't get through the kitchen door!" Which is not only mean, it was also inaccurate; obviously, he'd been through the kitchen door *thousands* of times.