Top 100 Van Dyke Quotes
#1. I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.
Dick Van Dyke
#3. 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.
Dick Van Dyke
#4. 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
#5. When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
Jeffrey Klarik
#6. I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
Dick Van Dyke
#7. Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.
Dave Foley
#8. Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. - Henry Van Dyke
William Paul Young
#9. There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.
Suzanne Somers
#10. I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
Matthew Sweet
#11. Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
Mary Tyler Moore
#12. Wisdom: Oh, fantastic. We've got an army made up of fairies and Beatles, and we're fighting H. G. Wells' martians and bloody Jack the Rippers. Who's next? Dick Van Dyke? Mr Bean? John Cleese and his dead parrot?
Paul Cornell
#13. 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun job.
Mike Scully
#14. I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
Ted Danson
#15. I probably remember more about 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' than Dick Van Dyke does.
Neil Flynn
#16. I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it.
Willa Holland
#17. As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.
Colin Mochrie
#18. Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
Douglas Wood
#19. The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.
Matthew Sweet
#20. There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' or 'Andy Griffith,' or 'Cheers.'
Bill Cosby
#21. And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.
Mary Tyler Moore
#22. Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having 'a sweep', do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of 'Step in Time'. Laughter is the inappropriate response to your friend's news.
Hadley Freeman
#23. He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.
Dick Van Dyke
#24. What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.
Henry Van Dyke
#25. Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
Dick Van Dyke
#26. 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
#27. I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
Dick Van Dyke
#28. I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
Dick Van Dyke
#29. I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'
Dick Van Dyke
#30. Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke
#31. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
#32. Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.
Henry Van Dyke
#33. I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
Dick Van Dyke
#34. A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
Henry Van Dyke
#35. It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.
Dick Van Dyke
#36. Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.
Henry Van Dyke
#37. Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.
Dick Van Dyke
#38. We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
Henry Van Dyke
#39. To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed.
Van Dyke Parks
#40. There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
Henry Van Dyke
#41. He that planteth a tree ... provideth a kindness for many generations.
Henry Van Dyke
#42. It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.
Henry Van Dyke
#43. Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?
Henry Van Dyke
#44. In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
Dick Van Dyke
#45. Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning. I think you need somebody to love and take care of, and someone who loves you back. In that sense, I think the New Testament got it right. So did the Beatles. Without love, nothing has any meaning.
Dick Van Dyke
#46. Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
Henry Van Dyke
#47. 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.
Dick Van Dyke
#48. Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
Dick Van Dyke
#49. There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
#50. I can't work with my brother without laughing.
Dick Van Dyke
#51. Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."
Henry Van Dyke
#52. Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.
Henry Van Dyke
#53. Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
Henry Van Dyke
#54. I've made peace with insecurity ... because there is no security of any kind.
Dick Van Dyke
#55. Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke
#56. Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
Henry Van Dyke
#57. You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
Van Dyke Parks
#58. 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
#60. It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Henry Van Dyke
#61. Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
Henry Van Dyke
#62. The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!
Henry Van Dyke
#63. Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
Henry Van Dyke
#64. I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.
Dick Van Dyke
#65. I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.
Dick Van Dyke
#66. I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.
Dick Van Dyke
#67. All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee.
Henry Van Dyke
#68. Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
Dick Van Dyke
#69. [My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.
Dick Van Dyke
#70. Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
Dick Van Dyke
#71. I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.
Dick Van Dyke
#72. The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke
#73. ..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?
Dick Van Dyke
#74. I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.
Dick Van Dyke
#75. I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
Dick Van Dyke
#76. In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Henry Van Dyke
#77. 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
#78. The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.
Dick Van Dyke
#79. Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
Henry Van Dyke
#81. We called ourselves the Burfords - Reverend Burford, Grandfather Burford, Cousin Burford, and so on.
Dick Van Dyke
#82. When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
Dick Van Dyke
#83. I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.
Henry Van Dyke
#85. This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.
Henry Van Dyke
#86. He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Henry Van Dyke
#88. 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
#89. A tear that trembles for a little while
Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world
Wavers within its circle like a dream,
Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb
Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.
Henry Van Dyke
#90. Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.
Henry Van Dyke
#91. 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
#92. Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.
Dick Van Dyke
#93. No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
Henry Van Dyke
#94. The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!
Henry Van Dyke
#95. I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.
Dick Van Dyke
#97. Light and air - what means wherewith to conjure up illusions and deceive the senses!
John C. Van Dyke
#98. There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Henry Van Dyke
#99. Julie's voice could have been used to tune a piano. She was pitch perfect - and I never was. I was enjoyably close.
Dick Van Dyke
#100. I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
Dick Van Dyke
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