My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn’t know 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
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl. – 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 a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don’t care what other people think, which I don’t think is right. You care what other people think, but if you’re comfortable in your own skin, that doesn’t bother you. – Dick Van Dyke
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. – Dick Van Dyke
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good. – Dick Van Dyke
For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me. – Dick Van Dyke
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
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad. – Dick Van Dyke
The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I’m in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on ‘Mary Poppins,’ lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer. – 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
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
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn’t want to do that kind of thing. – Dick Van Dyke
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
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
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 played a killer twice. Once on ‘Matlock,’ on Andy Griffith’s show, I got to play the killer. – Dick Van Dyke
All of us involved say ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play. – Dick Van Dyke
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show. – Dick Van Dyke
