Quotes by Dick Van Dyke

About Dick Van Dyke:

Richard Wayne is an American actor, comedian, writer, singer, dancer, and producer with a career spanning almost seven decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke.
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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

Dick Van Dyke

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

Dick Van Dyke

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

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Dick Van Dyke

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

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 awa...

Dick Van Dyke

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.

Dick Van Dyke

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

Dick Van Dyke

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expe...

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

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

Dick Van Dyke

I can't work with my brother without laughing.

Dick Van Dyke

Author Bio

  • NameDick Van Dyke
  • DescriptionAmerican television actor
  • BornDecember 13, 1925
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Film Producer; Writer; Dancer; Voice Actor; Musician
  • AwardsTony Award; Emmy Award; Daytime Emmy Award