Dick Van Dyke Quotes

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys.

What I remember most about the 'Road' movies is my enjoyment at watching the two characters sparring with each other. But more important than that was my feeling that Hope and Crosby were enjoying the sparring, too.

Some of my favorite actors are Gene Wilder and Eddie Murphy back in the day - that's mainly what me and my brothers watched when we were kids.

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.

Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

If you're watching comedy movies, go back and check out the Marx Brothers in 'Duck Soup,' or Buster Keaton in 'The General,' or Laurel and Hardy or W.C. Fields or whatever - and see what pure talent really was, so that you can see where it came from, and then you can sort of gauge it from there.

The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie.

I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

Oh my God... I worked with George C. Scott, way before 'Chips,' in 'The New Centurion.' I co-star in that movie. It was great working with him. I worked with Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum. Stacy Each. The old Hollywood. I met John Wayne, and that was a thrill. I was working next door to him.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

I'd really like to do a movie again with Tim Robbins and Clint Eastwood. They were really good guys.

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.