Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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 don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
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I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
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Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.
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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 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'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.
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As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.
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I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.
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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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Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
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The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.
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Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.
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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
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I'm not cantankerous.
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We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
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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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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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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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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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I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.
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I cannot live alone.
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Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.