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.
DICK CAVETTIt was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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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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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.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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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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