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Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Business Comedy Know Everything

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Music Hate Played

There was a time in my life when I was travelling to football grounds five days a week. Combined with TV work and the hours spent driving to different venues as well as watching the game, it took up an enormous chunk of my life. But I'm getting older, and those days are long gone.

Life Work Time Football Game Week

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

Funny Character Perception Acting

I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.

John Lanchester

Food Sky Buildings New London Gray

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

John Lothrop Motley

Good Lawyer Legal Christian Bad

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

People Be Nice Nice Always Tried

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

Life Change People Think Nothing

I don't think people truly know what I have done or that I've actually had a regular job.

Job People Think Know Done Actually

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

Government City Baby Youth Loved

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Joshua A. Norton

Mexico United Us United States

You can't do a good deal with bad people, and you can't do a bad deal with good people. I often use that as my compass.

Good People Good People Bad People

Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience.

Experience People Potential Reality

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