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.
DICK CAVETTCan you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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