“Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the ...” — Dick Cavett Quote

“Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'”

“You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.”

“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!”

“I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'”

“It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.”

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

“My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.”

“I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.”

“Instagram is a blessing - I love to post about everything I'm doing. The explore page is magical.”

“We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.”

“Every morning waking up and every night going to bed, I look at my scar. And I tell the Lord, 'Thank you for the blessing that He's given me to keep living, to keep playing, just to continue to breathe everyday.'”

“A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.”