I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
DICK CAVETTIts fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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