Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
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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'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 played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
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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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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'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
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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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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 pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
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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 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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I'm a very neat person.
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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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I swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.
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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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I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.
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My memory's not too good.
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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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There are no sure answers, only better questions.