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My kids are so much better parent than I was.
Dick Van Dyke
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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
Actor
Comedian
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Film Actor
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
Singer
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Television Actor
Television Producer
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West Plains
Missouri
Richard Wayne Van Dyke
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I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
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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.
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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.
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I think the biggest mistake - I was always a big fan of Cary Grant, and he asked me to do a movie with him, playing the second lead, and I didn't do it. And to this day, I can't remember why. But I could've said I worked with Cary Grant, but I turned him down. That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made.
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I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room.
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I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.
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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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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.
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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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I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.
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'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.
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Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.
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I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
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I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.
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Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.
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We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.
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