Its 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.
DICK CAVETTRunning 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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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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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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