American - Actor | December 13, 1925 -
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.
Dick Van Dyke
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When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
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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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Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
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I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.
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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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I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
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My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.
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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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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.
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Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.
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I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.
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