17 Dick Cavett Quotes

Dick Cavett quotes

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

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

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

4. There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?** mocking the TV-violence debate

5. Why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine! (in response to Norman Mailer's 'Why don't you just read the next question on your card there?')

1. Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

2. 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.

3. Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

4. 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.

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

6. Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

7. 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.

8. 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.'

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

10. Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

11. I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

12. I have a long list of things that make me mad.