It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
DICK CAVETTWhile 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.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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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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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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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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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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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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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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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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Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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