I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
DICK CAVETTI think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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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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In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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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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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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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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