A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
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.
I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people.
I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl Reiner.
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
I loved to fall down.
I never made a good movie.
I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.
I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.
I think there has to be some credibility to the humor, especially if situation comedy has to have a situation. And some of them don't.
I took a few too many falls in my life.
I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
I wanted to be a radio announcer.
I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.
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 was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly.
I'd like to put my feet up eventually. I'm approaching my 75th birthday, which - that's about long enough, isn't it?
I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
It was just come home at night - and never publicly - you know, just come home at night. And the one martini became two.
My kids are so much better parent than I was.
My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.
No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.
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.
Oh, well, it was - I met my wife in high school, of course. We barnstormed around the country.
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Primarily Carl Reiner, who was just a genius, a comedy genius. He wrote - he didn't care how silly people got, as long as it was believable, as long as there was a reason. And they acted like human beings. And he could write. He heard our speech patterns, and could write to it.
Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.
So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.
So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
There are no more Walt Disneys anymore. That's I think the rain reason. Walt had the touch. I think he thought like a kid.
Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
We did about 12 or 15 numbers, Mary and I, over the years. But that was just - it was so much fun.
We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
Dick turned down the role of the TV repairman in the movie Pleasantville which was actually specifically for him. The original script still shows the name of the repair company as "Rob's TV Repair" after Van Dyke's character in 'the Dick Van Dyke Show,' Rob Petrie. The role instead went to Don Knotts.
People in Britain use the term a "Dick Van Dyke accent” to convey an American's failed try at a British accent, because of his effort at a Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
Shortly after WW2, he and childhood pal, Philip Erickson, formed a nightclub comedy pantomime act, "The Merry Mutes" starring the comedy duo "Eric and Van."
There was a typo on his Hollywood Walk of Fame star given to him in 1992. The space between Van and Dyke was missing, reading "VanDyke". An embarrased mayor, said that it would be corrected the second the ceremony was over.
Dick's character, Rob Petrie, was named named number 78 on "Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters". Mary Tyler Moore's character, Laura, also shares the same spot.
He has served as an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Dick turned down an offer to be the host of the game show The Price is Right.
Dick sings bass in a barbershop quartet called "The Vantastix" with his ex- wife's stockbroker.
He is still very close friends with his The Dick Van Dyke Show co-star Mary Tyler Moore.
He won a Grammy Award for his work on the soundtrack to the movie Mary Poppins.
In 1992, Dick received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
In 1994, Dick received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy at the American Comedy Awards.
In 1961, Dick won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Bye Bye Birdie.
The Hallmark movie Murder 101 is the first time he has done a series for Cable TV.
Dick is described by family and friends as being private.
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