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.
DICK CAVETTI’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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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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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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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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You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
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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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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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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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