Meryl Streep belongs on anybody’s list of greats.
DICK CAVETTEvery so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn’t possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
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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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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
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