Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.
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I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
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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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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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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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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 did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.
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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'm a very neat person.
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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 sing and dance. That's my job.
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I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
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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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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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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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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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So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.
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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've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.
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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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Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
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I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
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I'm kind of proud of being a love child.