Ed McMahon

“I never took a drink on the air.”

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

“My first job was a bingo caller.”

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

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

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

“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.'”

“You are correct, sir!”

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

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

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

“Heeeeere's Johnny!”

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