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 More Quotes by Dick Van Dyke More Quotes From 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 otters play years We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people. Dick Van Dyke drains knows people 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 sense-of-humor mark bob I could probably play an alcoholic. I've had some experience with that. Dick Van Dyke alcoholics play I'm the anti-Quentin Tarantino. Dick Van Dyke quentin tarantino I just think everyone needs their own private space. Dick Van Dyke space needs thinking But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. Dick Van Dyke musical wish missing-you Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves. Dick Van Dyke sea littles moving I would love to be Moses. Dick Van Dyke moses There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore. Dick Van Dyke comedy 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 poor brother kids 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. Dick Van Dyke british office shows When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me. Dick Van Dyke comic come-up trying Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody. Dick Van Dyke alcoholics ifs today I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer. Dick Van Dyke moon silly class I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too. Dick Van Dyke documentaries als watches 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 four kids son One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy. Dick Van Dyke crazy ocean book When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.' Dick Van Dyke champion bye jobs I sing and dance. That's my job. Dick Van Dyke jobs
