Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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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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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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'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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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 had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
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My memory's not too good.
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I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
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I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
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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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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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Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
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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 wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.
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I wanted to be a radio announcer.
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I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.
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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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'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.
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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 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 swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.
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I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.