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
feel-good brain authority
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
heart brain wish
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
stars people brain
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.
brain able television
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.
dream sleep brain
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
brain mystery study
The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
cane moving stage
Really? Going on stage with a cane and moving the way you do?
diary kept older wish
Don't you wish you could have been a little older and kept a diary of all those meetings?
muddy saved
Well, it saved her a lot of muddy shoes,
checked distressed failed gentlemen hear lyrics pointed television terribly
That was a real contribution to television, ... It was pointed out to me after the show by a terribly distressed gentleman. He checked everything. It's as if he checked the lyrics for 'Tea for Two' and failed to check that. I don't know if they had lyrics with them, but he didn't hear it.
great rock
I don't know who said, 'Dick would be great with rock people,'
assigned days five good guy lost pick saved shows
We were doing shows five days a week, so I assigned a guy to pick out the good stuff, ... We lost some shows, but saved hundreds.
afraid anyone common fear ghost heard hurting people puzzles
Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.
finances people tend
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.