Jack Paar Quotes

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.' ~ Dick Cavett

Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog. ~ Jack Paar

Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney. ~ Jack Paar

I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state. ~ Jack Paar

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

Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe I was born with a silver knife in my back. ~ Jack Paar

Jack Paar took a vacation at the end of May 1958 and Johnny Carson filled in, hosting The Tonight Show for the very first time. It was a historical moment that at the time was dismissed. 'With Carson navigating, it was wholesome, intelligent and mostly dull,' wrote Variety. 'The experience of his helmship will never go down as memorable either for a Carson appearance or for an edition of the show. ~ Kliph Nesteroff

We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal." ~ Jack Paar

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing. ~ Jack Paar

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ~ Jack Paar

As I was saying before I was interrupted ... I believe the last thing I said was 'There must be a better way to make a living than this.' Well, I've looked - and there isn't. ~ Jack Paar

Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca. ~ Jack Paar

Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it. ~ Christopher Buckley

The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations. ~ Jack Paar

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show. ~ Dick Cavett

It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing. ~ Jack Paar

It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger. ~ Jack Paar

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland. ~ Jack Paar

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

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! ~ Jack Paar

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there. ~ Jack Paar

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle. ~ Jack Paar

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it. ~ Jack Paar

She should get a divorce and settle down. ~ Jack Paar

As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people. ~ Jack White

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. ~ Jack Jordan

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun. ~ Jack Nicklaus

Not to sound, you know, like a dick," Jack said carefully. "But you just dragged us out of bed to show us Jane's messy room? That's not really an emergency Mae."
"She's not here!" Mae shouted, gesturing to the mess around her. "That's the emergency."
"Again, not to be a dick, but that's not really an emergency." Jack said. ~ Amanda Hocking

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart. ~ Jack Kornfield

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love. ~ Jack Kornfield

ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information. ~ Jack Dangermond

One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it." ~ Jack Kornfield

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas. ~ Barbara Amiel

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don't like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths. ~ Jack White

We must trust everyone and no-one ~ Jack Lasenby

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. ~ John Lennon

I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible honor means that I represent the piss and vinegar, the energy, the defiance, the musicality of the Funk Brothers and Motown and Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger, Brownsville Station and Grand Funk Railroad and Eminem and Jack White and Kid Rock - are you kidding me? ~ Ted Nugent

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now. ~ Jack Dorsey

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me. ~ Eric Church

everyone deserves two things in life: respect and justice. ~ Jack Silkstone

I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant. ~ Jack Kirby

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like ... I would definitely do that. ~ Jack White

D, I have known a lot of men in my time,
queer and straight, and I think I can state with some
confidence that you are as gay as a spring parade." ~ Jack ~ Jane Seville

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy, ~ Jack Spicer

Charles is going to be fine," said Annie.
"Yep," said Jack with a smile. "He never even knew that it was us who helped him."
"That's the best way to help someone, I think," said Annie.
"Why?" asked Jack.
"Then you know you're not helping them just to get a lot of credit," said Annie. "You're helping because it's the right thing to do. ~ Mary Pope Osborne

I want to see you. I feel more and more at with you now actually than ever before, I feel you more, actually more clarity, more confidence, more trust. ~ Allen Ginsberg

You need to make good health a hobby. ~ Jack LaLanne

You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not necessary, but so very nice. It's Him ... It's priceless to discover the pleasure of His company ... May your home know something of all this glory during these days. ~ Jack W. Hayford

Good." He grinned.
"I was kind of worried you'd say no. It's like so against the rules it's not even funny."
I smiled. "Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you've demonstrated a deplorable lack of respect for all of my rules."
He chuckled. "Never met a rule I couldn't break. ~ Audrey Bell

The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a journalist. ~ Jack Kerouac

I know! What can I say? I'm fucked off my
face on Jack, and I suddenly find her in the bar, looking up at me with those huge
fuckin' eyes and cock-sucking lips that I can't get out of my head… Fuck, Styx,
she's my perfect woman! I couldn't help myself. I mean shit! Those tits! That
ass… I'm fuckin' cunt-struck! ~ Tillie Cole

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. ~ Jack Kerouac

Every once in a while, in newspapers, magazines, and biographical dictionaries, I run upon sketches of my life, wherein, delicately phrased, I learn that it was in order to study sociology that I became a tramp. This is very nice and thoughtful of the biographers, but it is inaccurate. I became a tramp - well, because of the life that was in me, of the wanderlust in my blood that would not let me rest. Sociology was merely incidental; it came afterward, in the same manner that a wet skin follows a ducking. I went on "The Road" because I couldn't keep away from it; because I hadn't the price of the railroad fare in my jeans; because I was so made that I couldn't work all my life on "one same shift"; because - well, just because it was easier to than not to. ~ Jack London