Dick Cavett Quotes

Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people.

I love doing talk shows.

I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

I want to be a late night host and the podcast is a way for me to do longer form interviews and to get better at interviewing.

I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

I've never considered myself a presenter or never really had the desire to do that, but in the U.S., what that entails is completely different to what it is on a panel show. A panel show is just a lot more fun.

I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.

I would love to do co-hosting somewhere to some degree.

I don't consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

My greatest satisfaction in acting on television is to have the opportunity to communicate with the world.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.