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
book kids people
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people, they finally dropped it from judo.
men young feels
I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.
fate loss thinking
Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.
rare-person listening-to-others want
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
two choices kind
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!
dirty naughty mind
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
inspirational funny children
If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
inspirational funny business
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
funny humor television
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
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?