Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.
But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
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.
Today, with the subject matter that's around politically, and internationally and everything, I think Carl Reiner would have a ball. I think the format should stay the same. I'd sure love to see him dealing with it today.
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.
You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.
I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it's born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.
I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.
I hear music and my feet just start moving.
I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
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 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.
Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.
I've never been what you'd call a great singer, but I loved to sing.
I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.
You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.