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.
DICK CAVETTCommercials 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
-
-
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
DICK CAVETT -
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETT -
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETT -
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.
DICK CAVETT -
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETT -
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
DICK CAVETT -
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
DICK CAVETT -
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
DICK CAVETT -
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
DICK CAVETT -
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
DICK CAVETT -
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
DICK CAVETT -
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
DICK CAVETT -
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETT -
Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
DICK CAVETT -
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
DICK CAVETT