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.
DICK CAVETTRunning 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.
DICK CAVETTJapanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
DICK CAVETTSloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
DICK CAVETTI’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
DICK CAVETTUnpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
DICK CAVETTI’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
DICK CAVETTWilliam F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETTLawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
DICK CAVETTI’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
DICK CAVETTI find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
DICK CAVETTI get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETTWhy 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 CAVETTTherapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETTWhile 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.
DICK CAVETTI 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.
DICK CAVETTYears 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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