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‟ I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.
- Dick Van Dyke
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‟ Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
- Dick Van Dyke
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‟ I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
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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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‟ For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
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‟ I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
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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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‟ 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 was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.
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‟ I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.
- Dick Van Dyke