While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
DICK CAVETTI have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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?’
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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 always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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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 am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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