Dick Van Dyke Quotes

• 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 think it’s being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

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• I never made a good movie.

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• I loved to fall down.

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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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• I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

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

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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 don’t have any children, I have four middle-aged people.

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

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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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• 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.

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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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Dick Van Dyke (34)

Birth:	13th December, 1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer

About

Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke. Van Dyke starred in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder.

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