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My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

~Dick Cavett

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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 conversation.'

~Dick Cavett

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I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

~Dick Cavett

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I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

~Dick Cavett

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If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

~Dick Cavett

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Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

~Dick Cavett

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It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

~Dick Cavett

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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

~Dick Cavett

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Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

~Dick Cavett

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Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

~Dick Cavett

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: November 19th, 1936

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