Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
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They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.
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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.
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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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I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
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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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I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.
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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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I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
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I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
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I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.
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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
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Emotionally, I'm about 13.
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The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.
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I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.
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I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
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I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.
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I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.
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All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.
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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.
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I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.
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One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.
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Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.