Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I never made a good movie.
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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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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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I loved to fall down.
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My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.
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For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
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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 had a lot of confidence in myself.
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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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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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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've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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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 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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Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.
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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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I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
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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 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 grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
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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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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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The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.