Dick Van Dyke quotes - page 4

I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't. (Dick Van Dyke)

They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

Dick Van Dyke

My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

Dick Van Dyke

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dick Van Dyke

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dick Van Dyke

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dick Van Dyke

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

Dick Van Dyke

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too. (Dick Van Dyke)

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.

Dick Van Dyke

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dick Van Dyke

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

Dick Van Dyke

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!

Dick Van Dyke

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

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I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dick Van Dyke

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Dick Van Dyke

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer. (Dick Van Dyke)

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Dick Van Dyke

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Occupation: American Actor
Born: December 13, 1925
Quotes count: 96

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