Dick Van Dyke
I loved to fall down.
I never made a good movie.
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.
I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
I wanted to be a radio announcer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We should never judge a day by its weather.Collection: Inspirational
You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.Collection: Peanut Butter
You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.Collection: Attitude
Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.Collection: Hurt
Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.Collection: Opportunity
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaningCollection: Love Is
I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault.Collection: Moving
Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.Collection: Children
I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.Collection: Community
You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.Collection: Needs
If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.Collection: Thinking
You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.Collection: What Matters
I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room.Collection: Thinking
It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.Collection: Mean
I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.Collection: Clue
I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.Collection: Christian
I just think everyone needs their own private space.Collection: Thinking
I would love to be Moses.Collection: Moses
Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.Collection: Moving
I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.Collection: Vocal Cords
Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Night
I think both of those: the subject matter, pop culture... the talent, I don't think... there's no Jim Belushi in Saturday Night Live, for me. And probably, you know, possibly the material. They've done everything over the years.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Real
I would love to see Carl Reiner working in the arena today. He did some marvelous things on our show in the early '60s when it was a little edgy. We did shows about blacks, a couple, three of those. Some thought-provoking stuff.Collection: Couple
Today, with the subject matter that's around politically, and internationally and everything, I think Carl Reiner would have a ball. I think the format should stay the same. I'd sure love to see him dealing with it today.Collection: Thinking
Everybody knows that I'm shorter, but it doesn't bother me at all.Collection: Bother
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.Collection: Oscars
I could probably play an alcoholic. I've had some experience with that.Collection: Play
There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.Collection: Comedy
I had an uncle who had a car with a rumble seat, and I used to love to ride in that thing. I mentioned this to some kids, and they were like, "What are you even talking about?"Collection: Uncles
Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Jobs
Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.Collection: Behavior
People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.Collection: Moving
I decided, when I started having kids, that I'd try not to do anything that I wouldn't be proud for them to see. I've kind of stuck with that, and I don't regret that at all, although I've lost money and passed up a lot of projects because of it. But I feel good about that.Collection: Regret
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.Collection: Years
I'm the anti-Quentin Tarantino.Collection: Tarantino
Only funny line I've had was my first day on the set of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They were making me up, and I saw the director call the makeup man over, and he says "What are we going to do about the hooter?" And the makeup guy said, "I'm not a plastic surgeon." So I started that show with a big nose, and quite conscious of it.Collection: Makeup
I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.Collection: Long