I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream? — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his… — Dick Cavett Copy Share
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly. — Dick Cavett Copy Share
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. — Dick Cavett Copy Share
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with… — Dick Cavett Copy Share
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very… — Dick Cavett Copy Share
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. — Dick Cavett Copy Share
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. — Dick Cavett Copy Share
“The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share
Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does… — Dick Cavett Copy Share
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way. — Dick Cavett Copy Share
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.… — Dick Cavett Copy Share
