287 Quotes by Dick Van Dyke

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.

Everybody knows that I’m shorter, but it doesn’t bother me at all.

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

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn’t move in show business circles, particularly, still don’t do it.

There’s a lot of very funny people I’d love to work with that I’ve never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

I don’t have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

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.

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did – played records.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said ‘Yes, but it hurts now.’ That’s exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!