There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
DICK CAVETTI would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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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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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I 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.
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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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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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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 think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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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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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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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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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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