Ed McMahon

“My first job was a bingo caller.”

“Heeeeere's Johnny!”

“You are correct, sir!”

“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a relationship.”

“When you're a sidekick, you have to be subordinate.”

“There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism.”

“I don't think I would have been a good host. I'm a good second banana.”

“The one thing you can't do on television is be false.”

“It's a business you go into because you're an egomaniac. It's a very embarrassing profession.”

“For the first 10 years of my life, I was a little boy from a cold-water flat in south Philadelphia.”

“I learned a long time ago from my mother that if you have a problem, you have to find a way to solve it.”

“I was a combat marine in the Korean War.”

“I don't have an ego that makes me say, 'I've got to be the star.'”

“I never took a drink on the air.”