I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
DICK CAVETTThe greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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