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Dick Van Dyke

The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.

— Dick Van Dyke secret

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

— Dick Van Dyke success

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

— Dick Van Dyke peace

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 men

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

— Dick Van Dyke family

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 life

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.

— Dick Van Dyke time

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.

— Dick Van Dyke time

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

— Dick Van Dyke business

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 music

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

— Dick Van Dyke life

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

— Dick Van Dyke living

I can't work with my brother without laughing.

— Dick Van Dyke work

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

— Dick Van Dyke life

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

— Dick Van Dyke family

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 love

I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. 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. I wanted to be a radio announcer.

— Dick Van Dyke time

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.

— Dick Van Dyke joy

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

— Dick Van Dyke sin

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 truth

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 business

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

— Dick Van Dyke life

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. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

— Dick Van Dyke success

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 children

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

— Dick Van Dyke body

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