Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
DICK CAVETTIf I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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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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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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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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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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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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