Quotes by Dick Cavett

About Dick Cavett:

Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett is an American former television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussions. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

Dick Cavett

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

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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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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

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I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

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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 c...

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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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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.

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It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'

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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

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The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameDick Cavett
  • DescriptionAmerican talk show host
  • BornNovember 19, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Television Presenter; Author
  • AwardsEmmy Award