Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
DICK CAVETTYou 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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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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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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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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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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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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.
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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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 love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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.
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