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.

I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.

'The Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.