Dick Van Dyke quotes - page 3

I can't work with my brother without laughing. (Dick Van Dyke)

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called "My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business." A publisher came to me and said write a book so I did. I wanted to call it "Everybody Else Has Got a Book."

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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 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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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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I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, 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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Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

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I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

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I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

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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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When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.' (Dick Van Dyke)

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

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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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My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

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I sing and dance. That's my job.

Dick Van Dyke

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

Dick Van Dyke

I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

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I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.

Dick Van Dyke

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. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

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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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As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. (Dick Van Dyke)

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

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I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

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I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

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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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