Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
DICK CAVETTI love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
-
-
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
DICK CAVETT -
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
DICK CAVETT -
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
DICK CAVETT -
I 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 CAVETT -
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
DICK CAVETT -
I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
DICK CAVETT -
I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.
DICK CAVETT -
There 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 CAVETT -
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
DICK CAVETT -
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
DICK CAVETT -
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
DICK CAVETT -
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.
DICK CAVETT -
I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
DICK CAVETT -
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
DICK CAVETT -
I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
DICK CAVETT