Dick Cavett

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1936 age 0

   Born

2. 1977 age 41

   CreditAnnie Hall

3. 1988 age 52

   CreditBeetlejuice

4. 1994 age 58

   CreditForrest Gump

5. 2000 age 64

   CreditFrequency

• RZRobert Zemeckis1 title
• EREric Roth1 title
• ASAlan Silvestri1 title
• THTom Hanks1 title
• GSGary Sinise1 title
• SFSally Field1 title
• RWRobin Wright1 title
• MWMykelti Williamson1 title
• HOHaley Joel Osment1 title
• HHHanna R. Hall1 title

• I don't think you could say now that ABC is crasser than the other two networks. But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. It becomes an ever-descending spiral.

  Dick Cavett, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown but always wanted one.

  Dick Cavett, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine.

  Dick Cavett, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Dick Cavett, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Dick Cavett, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

  Dick Cavett, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

English, German

Years active

1959–

Education

Lincoln High School, Saybrook College, Yale School of Drama, Yale University