DICK VAN PATTEN

You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

You're working with the same people, and there's a lot of recognition. I like to do series best. I really do.

I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week.

To be hungry must be awful.

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

I never thought radio would fizzle out.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

I love cats.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.