I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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 find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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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’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother 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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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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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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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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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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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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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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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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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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