Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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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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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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