Dick Van Dyke

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

“My kids are so much better parent than I was.”

“No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.”

“I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.”

“I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.”

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

“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.'”

“I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.”

“I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'”

“My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'”

“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.”

“I wanted to be a radio announcer.”