- Robert Blake: I do not like to travel. I don't like to go to hotels and get on the 20th floor, and sit there like a pigeon looking out the window, and sleep in a box. I don't like elevators. Whenever I get near an elevator, I'm going in it to go up to see somebody in a suit - and I don't like that. It's a lawyer, or it's some general that you go - you don't get in an elevator to go see your girlfriend or to go fishing or to have a good time.
- Johnny Carson: Do you handle failure better than you handle success?
- Robert Blake: I find it difficult to tell the difference, emotionally.
- Johnny Carson: [after Christie Brinkley describes two airline mishaps] Would you do me a favor? Tell me the next time you're taking a trip, because... I have a little time off, and I don't want to - I don't want to be on the plane that you're on.