The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Fernando Lamas/Richard Pryor/Robyn Hilton/William Peter Blatty (1974)
Fernando Lamas: Self
Quotes
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Johnny Carson : The average woman thinks if a fella has an accent - whether it's French or, uh, Spanish, or whatever - is somehow mysterious and, uh... has more emotional qualities within him. That's true.
Fernando Lamas : It also helps when they do not understand you.
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Johnny Carson : Have I ever...?
Fernando Lamas : Been hit, by a lady?
Johnny Carson : Well, it wasn't a lady.
Fernando Lamas : She was not a lady?
Johnny Carson : Well, no - because, see, if she would have been a lady, she wouldn't have slapped me.
Fernando Lamas : Right.
Johnny Carson : Right?
Fernando Lamas : That's a - that's a marvelous way out.
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Fernando Lamas : Have you noticed that mysterious people are generally mysterious because they have nothing to say? And I think it's a marvelous way out. You stay in a corner - mysterious, serious; people say "very interesting man". Just dumb! Nothing to say. Grow a mustache, like this, and stay very serious. Maybe a patch on the eye, people say "really something".
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Johnny Carson : Who would you like to come - hope to come back, if you could come back in another life?
Fernando Lamas : I'd like to be a kangaroo.
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Fernando Lamas : [on women being stronger] You know what would happen if we had to give birth? Humanity would end in a month.