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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.Collection: Dick
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.Collection: Dick
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.Collection: Dick
So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.Collection: Dick
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.Collection: Dick
So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.Collection: Dick
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.Collection: Dick
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.Collection: Dick
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.Collection: Dick
I can't work with my brother without laughing.Collection: Dick
When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'Collection: Dick
I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.Collection: Dick
Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'Collection: Dick
Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'Collection: Dick
I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.Collection: Dick
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.Collection: Dick
I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.Collection: Dick
I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.Collection: Dick
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: Dick
My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'Collection: Dick
'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.Collection: Dick
They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.Collection: Dick
I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.Collection: Dick
I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.Collection: Dick
I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.Collection: Dick
Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.Collection: Dick
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.Collection: Dick
I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.Collection: Dick
I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.Collection: Dick
I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.Collection: Dick
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.Collection: Dick
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.Collection: Dick
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.Collection: Dick
I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.Collection: Dick
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.Collection: Dick
I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.Collection: Dick
I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.Collection: Dick
I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.Collection: Dick
My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.Collection: Dick
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.Collection: Dick
There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.Collection: Dick
Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.Collection: Dick
I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.Collection: Dick
Emotionally, I'm about 13.Collection: Dick
I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'Collection: Dick
My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.Collection: Dick
In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.Collection: Dick
I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.Collection: Dick
In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.Collection: Dick
Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing.Collection: Dick