Dick Cavett Quotes
"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
(Related: Comedy, Years)
"To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is."
- Dick Cavett
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Cause, Comedy, Television)
"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
(Related: Time, Act, Eye, Nixon)
"Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: People, Man)
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: People, Will)
"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Want)
"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
(Related: Writing)
"I think I'd be pretty easy to write for."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Pretty)
"I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another."
- Dick Cavett
"Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Comedy)
"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Censorship, Mind, Word)
"Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house."
- Dick Cavett
"Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?"
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Age, Now)