Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavettis an American television personality and former talk show host notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth19 November 1936
CityGibbon, NE
CountryUnited States of America
men people assuming
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
house lines rats
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
book intellectual trying
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.
age
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
thinking surprise reactions
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
writing thinking easy
I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.
thinking remembers-everything youth
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
home ideas dentistry
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
trying bags sleazes
Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
loss losing problem
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
sex people police
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."
heart brain wish
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
practice ideas chocolate
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
jobs sleep college
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.