I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
Dick Van DykeYou can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.
Dick Van DykeYou have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.
Dick Van DykeI found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.
Dick Van DykeI 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.
Dick Van Dyke