Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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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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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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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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
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I sing and dance. That's my job.
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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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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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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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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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I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
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I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.
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Emotionally, I'm about 13.
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I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
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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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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 made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
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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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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'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 the Steven Spielberg of Malibu.
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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 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 cannot live alone.
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.