Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.
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I was 40 when I did my first movie.
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'The Vow,' I didn't know if people were going to want to see it, but we felt good about it. We we're like, 'Alright, either way, I liked the movie for what it was,' and I think we knew exactly what we were trying to do.
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The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
