American - Entertainer | November 19, 1936 -
I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.
Dick Cavett
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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.
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If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.
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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!
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It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
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A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
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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!
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I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.
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I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
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Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
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Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?
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