Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETTMeryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
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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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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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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 think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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