The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
DICK CAVETTI eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
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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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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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I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
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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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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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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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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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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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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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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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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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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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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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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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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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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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