206 Quotes by Dick Cavett

It’s a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that’s long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.

I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy’s show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.

I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.