Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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 played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
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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've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
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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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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'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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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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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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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'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
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I'm a very neat person.
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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 sing and dance. That's my job.
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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 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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My memory's not too good.
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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 don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
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There are no sure answers, only better questions.
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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'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 kind of proud of being a love child.
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I wanted to be a radio announcer.