Dick Van Patten Quotes
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I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.
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I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
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I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.
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It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
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I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
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My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.
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I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.
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I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.
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I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.
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I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.
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I never thought radio would fizzle out.
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I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
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I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.
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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
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People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.
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We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.
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From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
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We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.
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The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.
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I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week.
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If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.
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We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.
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We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
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I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.