I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
DICK CAVETTGreatly 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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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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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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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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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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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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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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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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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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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