Dick Cavett Quotes

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Dick Cavett

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 19, 1936

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

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

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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.

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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

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

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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

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Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

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

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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

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I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

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I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

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I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

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Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

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The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

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