I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
DICK CAVETTCensorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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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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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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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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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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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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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 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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I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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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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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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