Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

~ Dick Van Dyke

The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

~ Dick Van Dyke

He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.

~ Dick Van Dyke

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

~ Dick Van Dyke

In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.

~ Dick Van Dyke

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

~ Dick Van Dyke

It wasn't work. I played myself.

~ Dick Van Dyke

Why is it amazing that I don’t act my age? Why should I act my age? Or more to the point, how is someone my age supposed to act? Old age is part fact, part state of mind, part luck, and wholly something best left for other people to ponder, not you or me. Why waste your time? I don’t.

~ Dick Van Dyke

..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?

~ Dick Van Dyke

We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

~ 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

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

~ Dick Van Dyke

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

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

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

~ 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

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 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

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

~ 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 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

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

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

~ Dick Van Dyke