I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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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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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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Commercials 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.
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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.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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