Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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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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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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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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.
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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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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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