“Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon...” — Jack Paar Quote

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.