It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
DICK CAVETT
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?’
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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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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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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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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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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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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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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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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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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