American - Actor | December 13, 1925 -
I'm kind of proud of being a love child.
Dick Van Dyke
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Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
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Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.
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I'm a very neat person.
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I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.
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My memory's not too good.
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Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
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The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.
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'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'
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My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.
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Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.
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I never had a lot of confidence in myself.
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