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.
DICK CAVETTI’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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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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 student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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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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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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