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.
DICK CAVETTIn relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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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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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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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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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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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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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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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