Dick Cavett quotes - page 4

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like. (Dick Cavett)
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food. View quote
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I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. View quote
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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!' View quote
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I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before. View quote
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much. View quote
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I know what it feels like to be a gun lover. View quote
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it? (Dick Cavett)
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal. View quote
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I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. View quote
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The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored. View quote
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Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try. View quote
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. View quote
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. View quote
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I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then. View quote
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I hate Danny Kaye movies. View quote
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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?' View quote
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Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney? (Dick Cavett)
Why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine. View quote
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It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown but always wanted one. View quote
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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety. View quote
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It's no fun being a specimen. View quote
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