Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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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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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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