Richard Alva Cavett Quotes

• 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.

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

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• There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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• The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

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• Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

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• Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

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• It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

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• If your parents never had children, chances are… neither will you.

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• I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

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• I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.

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• I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.

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• Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

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• Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

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  Tags in Mind, Word, Dirty

• Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

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• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

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  Tags in Long, Accept, Crap

Richard Alva Cavett (15)

Birth:	19th November, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter

About

Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett is a former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.

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