Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.
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That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.
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There are no sure answers, only better questions.
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My kids are so much better parent than I was.
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I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.
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Working with my son was like falling off a log. I had so much fun doing 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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I wanted to be a radio announcer.
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In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.
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Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
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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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As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.
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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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A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.
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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
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Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
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It's quite hard to act yourself all the time.
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I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.
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My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.
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Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
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There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.
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When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.