Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
DICK CAVETTUnpleasant 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Commercials 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.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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It 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.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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 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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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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