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.
DICK CAVETTIt’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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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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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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 IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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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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 biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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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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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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