I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
DICK CAVETTShow people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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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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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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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.
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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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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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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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I 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.
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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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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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I’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.
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