Dick Cavett

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

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

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.