I'm a great believer in low self-esteem. Self-esteem is great for actors and criminals. I assume everyone is better than I am and smarter than I am, and if you go into the world with that assumption, you'll do fine. When I first started The Tonight Show, there were three or four people opposite me [Dennis Miller, Arsenio Hall, David Letterman, and Chevy Chase], and I remember I was writing my monologue, and I'm flipping around on the TV for ideas, and I see one of my competitors at a Lakers game, and I go, "Gotcha!" This guy will have no monologue tomorrow." And the next day he had opening remarks but he didn't have jokes.
- Jay Leno, in GQ, May 2009
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