Dick Van Dyke
Actor
1925-12-13
Quotes by Dick Van Dyke
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The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.
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I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
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I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
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The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.
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I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
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That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.
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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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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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When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
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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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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
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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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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
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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 swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.
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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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I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.
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Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.
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The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.
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