The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)

Robert Mitchum/Dick Van Patten/George Miller/Dennis Madalone (1978)

Dennis Madalone: Self

Quotes 

• Dennis Madalone : I did a 80-footer off a ski lift, hanging.

  Johnny Carson : 80-footer?

  Dennis Madalone : Yeah - a ski lift dropped, and I went 80 feet into two stacks of boxes under snow. So that kinda aired me out for a week - I couldn't eat pretzels.

  Johnny Carson : What - could I ask you what they pay you for, uh...

  Dennis Madalone : Uh... they pay us pretty well.

  Johnny Carson : Well, that's more than I thought it was.

• Dennis Madalone : [on getting his first job without a guild card after first being sent away]  I went into the men's room on the fifth story, and I opened the window and climbed along the ledge, outside, looking at these cars go by. And I just popped open the producer's window, and dove in and crashed and rolled, and I said, "Gimme a break! I got to be in show business!"