It’s no fun being a specimen.
DICK CAVETTA 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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 don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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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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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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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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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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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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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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