Dick Van Dyke

“As I’d found time and again throughout my life—and would continue to find—you do what you can, say your prayers, and hope for the best.”

“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.”

“Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scott...”

“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.”

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

“I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.”

“In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that...”

“'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desp...”

“So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.”

“The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.”

“But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.”

“Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.”

“I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.”

“I wanted to be a radio announcer.”

“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 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...”

“I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's liter...”

“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.”

“I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.”

“The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary...”