Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
DICK CAVETTYou 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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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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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.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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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.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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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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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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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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