Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.Dick Van Dyke
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Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing.Dick Van Dyke
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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.Dick Van Dyke
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When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.Dick Van Dyke
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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.Dick Van Dyke
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I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.Dick Van Dyke
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I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.Dick Van Dyke
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When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.Dick Van Dyke
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For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.Dick Van Dyke
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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.Dick Van Dyke
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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!Dick Van Dyke
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I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.Dick Van Dyke
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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.Dick Van Dyke
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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.Dick Van Dyke
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One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.Dick Van Dyke
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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
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Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.Dick Van Dyke
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I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.Dick Van Dyke
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A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.Dick Van Dyke
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If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.Dick Van Dyke
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I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.Dick Van Dyke
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Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.Dick Van Dyke
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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.Dick Van Dyke
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I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.Dick Van Dyke
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My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.Dick Van Dyke
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In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.Dick Van Dyke
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I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!Dick Van Dyke
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I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.Dick Van Dyke
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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.Dick Van Dyke
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The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.Dick Van Dyke
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I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.Dick Van Dyke
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As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.Dick Van Dyke
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