The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
DICK CAVETTIt’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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