Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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 married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.
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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'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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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 worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.
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I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
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Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
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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 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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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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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
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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'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 don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.
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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 think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
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I'm the Steven Spielberg of Malibu.
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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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My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
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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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Emotionally, I'm about 13.