Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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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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.
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The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.
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I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.
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I'm not cantankerous.
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I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.
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I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
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I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.
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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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I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
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I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
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Emotionally, I'm about 13.
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I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.
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Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
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My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
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I cannot live alone.
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I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.
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Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
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I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
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I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.