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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

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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 99
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
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