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.
DICK CAVETTCommercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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 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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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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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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
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