Dick Cavett Quotes

I love doing talk shows.

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

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

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

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

I'm not interested in celebrity.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.

I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

When I was younger, I didn't want to be on TV.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I was offered 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I turned it down because that celebrity world is not what I'm into.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

My first press tour for 'Vikings' was pretty overwhelming. Between all the hotels, TV shows and talking a lot, I would get done and have to sit in silence for a while. It was exhausting, and you really have to focus.

Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

I don't want to be a reality TV star - that's not for me.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.