Top 120 Quotes by Dick Cavett

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 were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

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

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

Great humorists are great insulters.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

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

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.