Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
DICK CAVETTA grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
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In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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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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It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.
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There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.
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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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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.’
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It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.
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Great humorists are great insulters.
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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
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I hate Danny Kaye movies.
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Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
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