Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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Dick Van Dyke

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 13, 1925

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

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I loved to fall down.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

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I never made a good movie.

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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.

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

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I wanted to be a radio announcer.

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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.

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

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My kids are so much better parent than I was.

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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.

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