Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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.

Dick Van Dyke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveWaitingMePerformanceYou

I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.

Joe Pesci

LoveGoodHelpYouWantMovies

All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

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When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.

Robert Gober

FaithArtTearsGrowYouBlood

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Sun Tzu

YourselfYouEnemyIgnorantYour

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.

Sinead O'Connor

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Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

Masi Oka

LifeLiveLive LifeThinkLearnYou

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

Mitt Romney

LovePoliticsMomThoughtSayFair

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Julia Roberts

LoveHappinessHappyBe HappyYou

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Bruce Dern

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I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

Payne Stewart

YourselfThinkHealthySeriouslyToo

I want cinema to be a part of my life. It's natural for me.

Richard Linklater

LifeMeMy LifeCinemaWantNatural

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