Quotes from Dick Van Dyke

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

I swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

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.

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.

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

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

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 everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

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.'

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.'

I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.

'The Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.