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I loved to fall down.

I sing and dance. That's my job.

Dick Van Dyke

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

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

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dick Van Dyke

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

Dick Van Dyke

I loved to fall down.

Dick Van Dyke

My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.

Dick Van Dyke

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

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.

Dick Van Dyke

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

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

Dick Van Dyke

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dick Van Dyke

That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.

Dick Van Dyke

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Dick Van Dyke

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

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

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

Dick Van Dyke

My life has been a magnificent indulgence.

Dick Van Dyke

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

Dick Van Dyke

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dick Van Dyke

It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dick Van Dyke

My memory's not too good.

Dick Van Dyke

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

Dick Van Dyke

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

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.

Dick Van Dyke

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Dick Van Dyke

I never had a lot of confidence in myself.

Dick Van Dyke

I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dick Van Dyke

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

Dick Van Dyke

I'm crazy about Judi Dench.

Dick Van Dyke

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

Dick Van Dyke