A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
DICK CAVETTThe 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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 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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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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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