Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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.
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Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
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For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
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My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.
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I loved to fall down.
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I never made a good movie.
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I never had a lot of confidence in myself.
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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.
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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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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 don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.
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Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.
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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.
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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 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!
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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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I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
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My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.
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I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
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Dick Martin was a good buddy, and he was always a lot of fun to have around.
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When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.