I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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 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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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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