I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
DICK CAVETTI’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
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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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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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 get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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