Conan O'Brien Quotes

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.

Mein Assistent findet das Streben nach dem göttlichen griechischen Staat Arete „lahm“ und sollte „einen Schwanz essen“. - Conan O'Brien

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

Just programmed my Alexa to order a pizza if I shout incoherently for more than 10 seconds

Applaud my idiocy.

Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.

Blow it up.

Eventually, all our graves go unattended.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

Nobody in life gets exactly what they though they were going to get.
But if you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen.
I'm telling you: Amazing things will happen.

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.