Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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Emotionally, I'm about 13.
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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 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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I sing and dance. That's my job.
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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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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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Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
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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'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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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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I'm a very neat person.
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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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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 pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
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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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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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My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
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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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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 don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
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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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There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.