Dick Van Dyke Quotes

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

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.

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

'The Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.

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.

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

I wasn't a falling-in-the-gutter type. I drank at home because it relaxed me. I was shy around new people, but after a drink or two, I became more sociable.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

I could probably play an alcoholic. I've had some experience with that.

I never made a good movie.

I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

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

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.

I sing and dance. That's my job.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.

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

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.

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.

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.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.

I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

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

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

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

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

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.

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.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

I loved to fall down.

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

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

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.

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.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance too, but it hurts now!

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.

Everybody knows that I'm shorter, but it doesn't bother me at all.

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

The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.

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