Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
DICK CAVETTIn relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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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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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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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 guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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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