Dick Cavett quotes - page 5

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories. (Dick Cavett)
I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah. View quote
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Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments. View quote
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In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise. View quote
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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?' View quote
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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.' View quote
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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels! View quote
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I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. View quote
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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. View quote
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's. View quote
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I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska. (Dick Cavett)
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. View quote
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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve. View quote
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I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him. View quote
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When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time. View quote
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are. View quote
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I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness. View quote
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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. View quote
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The playwright George S. Kaufman remembered what he called the "greatest ‘line reversal' of my lifetime.” He liked to drop in on Broadway shows he had directed to, as he put it, "just check on them and take out the ‘improvements.' ” He was eternally grateful to have caught one performance when he heard an actor commit the gem. It ran: "Her breath would take your beauty away.” He kept the line framed on his desk ever afterward. (Dick Cavett)