Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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Everybody knows that I'm shorter, but it doesn't bother me at all.
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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.
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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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I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
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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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Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.
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I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.
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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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10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.
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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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I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.
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We should never judge a day by its weather.
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Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.
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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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Haters are going to hate.
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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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I never made a good movie.
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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.
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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
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I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
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I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.
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But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
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A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
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Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.
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I can't work with my brother without laughing.
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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 played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
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Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
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