I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETTYou would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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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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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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