Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I love to harmonize.
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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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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 never had a lot of confidence in myself.
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I loved to fall down.
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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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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 never made a good movie.
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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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I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.
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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 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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Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.
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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've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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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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Dick Martin was a good buddy, and he was always a lot of fun to have around.
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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
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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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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.
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The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.