Dick Cavett Quotes

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Dick Cavett

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 19, 1936

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

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I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

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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.

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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

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I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

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Great humorists are great insulters.

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

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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.

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I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

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I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

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I hate Danny Kaye movies.

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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

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It's no fun being a specimen.

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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?'

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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

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I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

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Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

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