Quotes By Dick Van Dyke

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people.

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.

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.

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.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

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.

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.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

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.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

I never made a good movie.

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.

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.

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

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.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

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

I loved to fall down.

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.

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.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.