Quotes by Dick Cavett

“I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later youre hungry for power.”

“Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.”

“Theres so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?”

“To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.”

“Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.”

“Its a rare person who wants to hear what he doesnt want to hear”

“If your parents never had children, chances are you wont either”

“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”

“If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.”

“The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show, ... Cops would come by — often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.”

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

Im sure Ive all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramers Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

The very phrase Oscar night used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films failure - once again - to be honored.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

If your parents never had children, chances are you wont either.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.