Dick Van Dyke Quotes

We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

Class clowns become actors.

I played comedies and dramas.

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.

Theater dates very quickly.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

When you have a play, you have to be on every night.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

Rehearsals are for gags.

I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.