287 Quotes by Dick Van Dyke

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn’t know it.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don’t see them anymore.

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that’s enough for me.

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians – Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I’d go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I’d seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it’s born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn’t want to do that kind of thing.

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.

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can’t bear to be alone.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity – the tenacity of a drowning man.