In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
DICK CAVETTIt’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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