Dick Van Dyke Quotes

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

I was obsessed with New York early on. I was watching sitcoms that were set in or around New York, like 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I was always very fascinated with the people who were on 'What's My Line?' and I always had an incredible obsession with the city.

Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.

I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

I probably remember more about 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' than Dick Van Dyke does.

I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun job.

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.

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was my labor of love. When asked the best thing I ever did - that was it. I wrote it originally for myself.

Performing for Dick Van Dyke once was fun.

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

And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

Even failures can turn into something positive if you just keep going. I wrote a television pilot called 'Head of the Family.' CBS didn't want it. It was considered a failure. But we reworked it. A year later, it became 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.

I actually grew up in the 'burbs - New Rochelle, specifically, most famously home to Rob and Laura Petrie of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'