You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
DICK CAVETTYou have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’
DICK CAVETTComedians 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.
DICK CAVETTRunning my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
DICK CAVETTJust think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
DICK CAVETTI find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
DICK CAVETTI have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
DICK CAVETTOnce I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETTElectronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
DICK CAVETTWhile 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.
DICK CAVETTI have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
DICK CAVETTAnything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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 CAVETTEvery student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
DICK CAVETTI’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.
DICK CAVETTThere should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
DICK CAVETTEvery writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
DICK CAVETT