I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETTI get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
DICK CAVETTI don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTThe information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.
DICK CAVETTI 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.’
DICK CAVETTTherapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETTChris 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!
DICK CAVETTGreat humorists are great insulters.
DICK CAVETTI’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
DICK CAVETTI’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.
DICK CAVETTI live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
DICK CAVETTThere 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.
DICK CAVETTAn effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
DICK CAVETTI think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
DICK CAVETTThe 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.
DICK CAVETTDepression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
DICK CAVETTI’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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