Cavett Quotes

Yoko Ono sat in that very chair. - Dick Cavett

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. - Dick Cavett

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew. - Cavett Robert

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. - Dick Cavett

They asked how much current music I liked, ... Well, I loved Wilson Pickett. I liked [Cajun fiddler] Doug Kershaw, 'The Alligator Man.' I wondered if there was more music like that. But the fact I had all these people on still surprises me. For some reason, I was accepted by the rock folk. Maybe they understood that they and I were on the same side of the Richard Nixon question. - Dick Cavett

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? - Dick Cavett

There was also evidence of misbehavior backstage, ... Stubbed-out joints, copies of Jack Kerouac, a copy of Ulysses in the detritus of the dressing room. - Dick Cavett

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. - Dick Cavett