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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
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West Plains
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Richard Wayne Van Dyke
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People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.
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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.
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Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
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[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.
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I would love to see Carl Reiner working in the arena today. He did some marvelous things on our show in the early '60s when it was a little edgy. We did shows about blacks, a couple, three of those. Some thought-provoking stuff.
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There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.
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Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.
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I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.
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10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.
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My kids are so much better parent than I was.
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If you spend your life thinking, I wonder if today is when it ends, you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.
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Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
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Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
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The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.
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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.
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So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.
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