Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
DICK CAVETTThere’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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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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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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