My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
DICK CAVETTA 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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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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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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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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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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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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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’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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