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.
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
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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’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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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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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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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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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Great humorists are great insulters.
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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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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.
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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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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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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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