When I’m doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: ‘Tell about the guy who died on your show!’
DICK CAVETTChris 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!
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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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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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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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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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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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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Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
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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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