When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.
Dick Van Dyke
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.
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.
The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
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.
The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.
Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
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.
I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.
That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.
My life has been a magnificent indulgence.
I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!
Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.
'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.'
I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.
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.
For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
Once you're dead, your worries are over.
Emotionally, I'm about 13.
In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear.
I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
I never made a good movie.
I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.
There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.
I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.
They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.
I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.
Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
I swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.
I cannot live alone.
