Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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Dick Van Dyke

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 13, 1925

The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dick Van Dyke

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

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My life has been a magnificent indulgence.

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Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.

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

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A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

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I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.

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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.

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

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I'm crazy about Judi Dench.

Dick Van Dyke

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.

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I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

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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.

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I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.

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'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

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The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.

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I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.

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Once you're dead, your worries are over.

Dick Van Dyke