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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More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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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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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
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I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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Chris 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!
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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
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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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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
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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!’
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I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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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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I’m not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
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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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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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