Quotes by Dick Van Dyke

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

“I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl [Reiner].”

“Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, well likely not see another like him,”

“Today, if youre not an alcoholic, youre nobody.”

I didnt 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.

The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you cant spread peanut butter on the jelly.

In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

It wasnt work. I played myself.

Why is it amazing that I don’t act my age? Why should I act my age? Or more to the point, how is someone my age supposed to act? Old age is part fact, part state of mind, part luck, and wholly something best left for other people to ponder, not you or me. Why waste your time? I don’t.

..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?

We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

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

As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didnt teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadnt had a family myself, I probably never wouldve done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

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

Its more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. Im one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.