I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTThe sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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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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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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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 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 hate Danny Kaye movies.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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