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    Dick Van Dyke

    10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but it just slowly happened. My wife was proud of me, but she hated the business, and for good reason. The spouses get moved, shoved aside, and ignored, and it's just, it's terrible.

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

    A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I realized that almost everything that's happened to me was the result of being in the right place at the right time. And I thought "Well, luck has a lot to do with it," so I wrote it from that perspective.

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    As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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

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    Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

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    Dick Van Dyke

    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!

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    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I can't work with my brother without laughing.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I could probably play an alcoholic. I've had some experience with that.

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    I decided, when I started having kids, that I'd try not to do anything that I wouldn't be proud for them to see. I've kind of stuck with that, and I don't regret that at all, although I've lost money and passed up a lot of projects because of it. But I feel good about that.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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    I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

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    I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

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    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I had an uncle who had a car with a rumble seat, and I used to love to ride in that thing. I mentioned this to some kids, and they were like, "What are you even talking about?

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

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    I hear music and my feet just start moving.

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    I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I loved to fall down.

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

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    I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I think both of those: the subject matter, pop culture... the talent, I don't think... there's no Jim Belushi in Saturday Night Live, for me. And probably, you know, possibly the material. They've done everything over the years.

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    Dick Van Dyke

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

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    Dick Van Dyke

    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.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I think the biggest mistake - I was always a big fan of Cary Grant, and he asked me to do a movie with him, playing the second lead, and I didn't do it. And to this day, I can't remember why. But I could've said I worked with Cary Grant, but I turned him down. That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made.

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    Dick Van Dyke

    I think there's kind of a wave of nostalgia going on right at the moment. You know, people recall an earlier time, which they see as a better time. And I think we just kind of evoke good thoughts when they look at us. That's the feeling I get.