Saturday, May 21, 2011

Dick Cavett


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

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
Dick Cavett

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett

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

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

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

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.
Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Dick Cavett

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

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
Dick Cavett

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.
Dick Cavett

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

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Dick Cavett

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.
Dick Cavett


Biography
Type: Entertainer
Nationality: American
Born: November 19, 1936

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