Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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.

Dick Van Dyke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1925

Topics

MyselfDayManI AmBeing Myself

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

Johanna Lindsey

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I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

Andres Serrano

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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

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Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

Suge Knight

MoneyHappyPeopleEnoughWantMore

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.

Travis Kalanick

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I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

Tom Selleck

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Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Boman Irani

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A person that's going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump.

Anthony Scaramucci

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

Phil Klay

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Every director I've ever admired has a beard.

Peter Horton

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