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

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Intellectual Label Me Misunderstanding

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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

Topics: Badly Brilliantly Club Comedy Comedy Club Comic Doing Extremely Foot Painful Passed Set Since Years

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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.

~Dick Cavett

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The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

~Dick Cavett

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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

~Dick Cavett

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

~Dick Cavett

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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Actor Being Comedy Day Drama Farce Like Low One Day Performance Really Repertory Running Scenes Show Tragedy Where You

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

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Chances Children Either Had Never Parents You Your

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Great humorists are great insulters.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Great

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I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Been Feel Forever He Him Like Old Saw Then Thought Watching I Feel I Feel Like 1950S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: November 19th, 1936

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