Van Dyke Speaks

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

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.
Dick Van Dyke

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

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

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.
Dick Van Dyke

I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

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

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
Dick Van Dyke

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

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

I loved to fall down.
Dick Van Dyke

I never made a good movie.
Dick Van Dyke

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

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.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

I think there has to be some credibility to the humor, especially if situation comedy has to have a situation. And some of them don't.
Dick Van Dyke

I took a few too many falls in my life.
Dick Van Dyke

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

I wanted to be a radio announcer.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

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

My kids are so much better parent than I was.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
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.
Dick Van Dyke

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
Dick Van Dyke

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
Dick Van Dyke

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
Dick Van Dyke

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.
Dick Van Dyke

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
Dick Van Dyke