Dick Van Patten

“You're working with the same people, and there's a lot of recognition. I like to do series best. I really do.”

“I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week.”

“I love cats.”

“I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.”

“I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.”

“To be hungry must be awful.”

“The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.”

“I wasn't worried about unemployment.”

“I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.”

“My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.”

“From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.”

“We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.”

“Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.”

“I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.”

“I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.”

“I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.”

“I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.”

“We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.”

“I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.”

“We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.”