Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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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I loved to fall down.
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I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.
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Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing.
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My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.
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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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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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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
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I never had a lot of confidence in myself.
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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
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In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.
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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 don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.
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I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
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I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.
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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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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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I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.
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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
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Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
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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.