Dick Cavett

Entertainer

120 Quotes

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.

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.

Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

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.

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people, they finally dropped it from judo.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

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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