It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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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.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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