There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTThe 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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 live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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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!
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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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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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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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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