Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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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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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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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Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.
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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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I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
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I'm kind of proud of being a love child.
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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 swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.
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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
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My memory's not too good.
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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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I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'
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I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
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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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I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
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No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.
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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.
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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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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'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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I'm the Steven Spielberg of Malibu.
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My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.
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I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.