As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
DICK CAVETTIt’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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 think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Unpleasant 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.
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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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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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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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