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.
DICK CAVETTThere is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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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 have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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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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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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