You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
DICK CAVETTGreatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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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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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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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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