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.’
DICK CAVETTPerhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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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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