A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
DICK CAVETTI 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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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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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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 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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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