206 Quotes by Dick Cavett

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.

It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

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!

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.’

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they’re qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Bush’s “the French have no word for entrepreneur” is guaranteed immortality.

I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.

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.