Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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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 went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.
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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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All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.
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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 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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I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.
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There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.
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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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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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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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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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Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
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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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Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
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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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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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That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.
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It's quite hard to act yourself all the time.
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My kids are so much better parent than I was.
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The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.
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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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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.
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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.