Dick Van Dyke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like the blame game, though.
-
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
-
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
-
It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
-
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
-
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
-
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
-
The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
-
I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
-
Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
-
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
-
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
-
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
-
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
-
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
-
It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
-
There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
-
God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
-
I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
-
I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'
-
When I started binge-watching TV, when that became a thing due to Netflix a few years ago, the first thing I watched was 'Lost.' It was summer break from grad school, and I watched it all in a row, like as many hours a day as I could, as though I were clocking in at a job.
-
When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
-
I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
