There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTIt takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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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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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!’
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I’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.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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If 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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