I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTJapanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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