206 Quotes by Dick Cavett

If I were running a campaign, I’d urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely – on a talented young comedy writer.

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.

To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

I feel like I’ve been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you’re stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, ‘Hey, you’re great! What’s your name again?’

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.

I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.