I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
— Dick Van Dyke
I love to harmonize.
Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.
I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.
I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.
Dick Martin was a good buddy, and he was always a lot of fun to have around.
I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.
I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.
The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.
My life has been a magnificent indulgence.
I'm the Steven Spielberg of Malibu.
I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There's hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that's as far away from real performance as you can get.
Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening.
All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.
Working with my son was like falling off a log. I had so much fun doing it.
I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.
As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.
That rule about having to act one's age? I just don't buy it.
The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.
I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
I'm not cantankerous.
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.
I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.
I never had a lot of confidence in myself.
My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.
I swim, go to the gym, and do a little dancing every day and a little singing.
Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
I'm a very neat person.
I'm kind of proud of being a love child.
There are no sure answers, only better questions.
The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.
A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.
It's quite hard to act yourself all the time.
My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.
My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.
Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.
There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.
I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.
Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.
'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'
The years have been just full of surprises for me, and a lot of fun.
My memory's not too good.
Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did.
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
I cannot live alone.
