There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
DICK CAVETTGreat humorists are great insulters.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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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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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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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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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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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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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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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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