Dick Van Dyke
I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.Collection: Peace
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Business
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.Collection: Morning
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.Collection: Good
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!Collection: Age
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.Collection: Humor
That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.Collection: Age
The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.Collection: Government
The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.Collection: Food
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.Collection: Patience
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
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.
I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
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.
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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.'
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.
But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.
When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.
When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'
I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
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.
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.
Working with my son was like falling off a log. I had so much fun doing it.
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.
Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.
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.
I have a beautiful, young wife who sings and dances, so there's a lot of duetting going on at my house.
My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.
I sing and dance. That's my job.
Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
My kids are so much better parent than I was.
I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.
I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.
Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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 don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
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.