Johnny Carson Quotes

I've always been this way. This is who I am. Take it or leave it. You'll either hate me or you'll love me. I have a strong personality which isn't necessarily good or bad. I really don't mind what people in Oklahoma who I don't know think of me. I really only care about the people in my life.

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like.

I think I'm pretty confident, and I know I'm different than everyone else, so I'm going to do what's me.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.

If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.

You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

Have the confidence to be your own person.

I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.

I was never the kind of person who cared much what people thought about me.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

I have no doubt who I am.