Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
DICK CAVETTCan you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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