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Once you're dead, your worries are over.
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For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
Dick Van Dyke
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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
Dick Van Dyke -
I loved to fall down.
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Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.
Dick Van Dyke -
I never made a good movie.
Dick Van Dyke -
I never had a lot of confidence in myself.
Dick Van Dyke -
My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.
Dick Van Dyke
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I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.
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I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
Dick Van Dyke -
I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.
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So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
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I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
Dick Van Dyke -
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
Dick Van Dyke
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I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.
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Dick Martin was a good buddy, and he was always a lot of fun to have around.
Dick Van Dyke -
I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.
Dick Van Dyke -
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
Dick Van Dyke -
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
Dick Van Dyke -
I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
Dick Van Dyke
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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
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My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
Dick Van Dyke -
When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.
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