I have a long list of things that make me mad.
DICK CAVETT
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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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You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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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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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?’
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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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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