To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETTTo call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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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.
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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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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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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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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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It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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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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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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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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