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.”

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

“When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'”

“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.”

“Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.”

“The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.”

“But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.”

“I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.”

“I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.”

“I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.”

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

“They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.”

“I love to harmonize.”

“I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.”

“I'm kind of proud of being a love child.”

“I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.”

“Once you're dead, your worries are over.”

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

“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.”

“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.”