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Dick Cavett

I live a sensible life. You know, I don’t take on too much.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

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.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

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

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

All three of my parents – I also had a stepmother – were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, ‘Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.’

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn’t really there.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

It’s no fun being a specimen.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

– Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

– Dick Cavett

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