Dick Van Dyke Quotes
"You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Habit, Now, Television)
"I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: People, Stress, Will)
"I wanted to be a radio announcer."
- Dick Van Dyke
"Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Today)
"Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Golf)
"So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Sex, People, Choice, Violence)
"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Job, News, School)
"So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Life, Kids, Pretty, Will)
"Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Time, First, Kids, Moments, Night)
"Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Love, Comedy, Dancing, First, First love, Singing)
"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."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Time, Idea, Writing)
"No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Life, People, Relationships)
"No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Home, Business, Friend, Months, Night, Right)
"My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Son, Beginning, Kids, Now)
"My kids are so much better parent than I was."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Kids)
"We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: End)
"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Business)
"But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore."
- Dick Van Dyke
"I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Business, Life, Months, Old)
"I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Business, Being)
"I never made a good movie."
- Dick Van Dyke
"I loved to fall down."
- Dick Van Dyke
"I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Business, Life, Comedy)
"I have four children and I have seven grandkids."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Children)
"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Right, State)
"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
(Related: Truth, People, Chance)
"I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: People, Children)
"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."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Children, Kids)
"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Pretty)
"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."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Humor, Hope, American, Sense)
"I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Movies, Taste)
"I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Habit, Now)
"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Violence, Want)