Dick Cavett Quotes - Page 4

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.

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

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.

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.

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.

Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

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!

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

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.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

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.