Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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• You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.
• We should never judge a day by its weather.
• It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.
• I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing…
• I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I…
• Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books
• Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning
• I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
• Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show…
• My kids are so much better parent than I was.
• Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
• I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become…
• I wanted to be a radio announcer.
• So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
• I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still…
• I loved to fall down.
• You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
• I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
• I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.
• Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

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