Dick Cavett Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Dick Cavett

  Forever, Saws, Feels

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• I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

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  Too Much, Sensible, Knows

  "On the Couch... with Dick Cavett". Interview with Deborah Serani, www.psychologytoday.com. April 21, 2011.

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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.

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  Mean, Fighting, Intellectual

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 2, 2010.

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

  Dick Cavett

  Shows, Show Business

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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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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  Pain, Feet, Years

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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!'

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  Guy, Appearance, Shows

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.41, Macmillan

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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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  Book, Intellectual, Trying

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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.

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  Night, Laughing, Advantage

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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.

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  Gun, Done, Way

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.188, Henry Holt and Company

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• It's no fun being a specimen.

  Dick Cavett

  Fun

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• The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

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  Sudden Death

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

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  Television, Entertainment, Associates

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• I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

  Dick Cavett

  Kids, Advice, Frost

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2006.

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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.

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  Kids, Doors, Car

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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.

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  Mean, Successful, Comedian

  "Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.

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• Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

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  Dream, Sleep, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.5, Henry Holt and Company

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Sleep, College

  "On the Couch... with Dick Cavett". Interview with Deborah Serani, www.psychologytoday.com. April 21, 2011.

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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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  Voice, Feelings, Mind

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• If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

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  Giving, Bed, Care

  "People With Depression Commit Suicide". Big think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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.

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  Boys, Water, Wife

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.86, Macmillan

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

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  Writing, Thinking, Easy

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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.

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  Strong, Night, Dating

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• There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

  Dick Cavett

  Astrology, Three, Week

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• History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

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  Reassuring, Longevity, Lasting

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• I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

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  Sacred

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