I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTWhy 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.”
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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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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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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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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