When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
DICK CAVETTI’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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