“I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer.” KnowsKindPlayShowsWantedGuyClassGroupsMoonRadioSillyFar AwayShow BusinessClownAnnouncers Author:Dick Van Dyke
“My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.” WayReasonShowsWantedWifeProudMy WifeHatedGet AwaySpouseShow Business Author:Dick Van Dyke
“Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'” HelpingWantedGladGravestone Author:Dick Van Dyke
“I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called "My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business." A publisher came to me and said write a book so I did. I wanted to call it "Everybody Else Has Got a Book."” WritingLittlesSaidBookShowsWantedLuckyLuckAutobiographyPublishersShow Business Author:Dick Van Dyke
“I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.” YearsWantedLeftRadioCaptainsLaurelsAnnouncersKangaroos Author:Dick Van Dyke
“Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'” FeelingsKidsWantedBirdPaidRaisedAccomplishHeyMortgageGreat FeelingsPaid Off Author:Dick Van Dyke
“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 someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.” MenWantI CanWantedSongActorsEnjoyCan DoHandleThis DayBeing MyselfSong And Dance Author:Dick Van Dyke
“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.” WantKindSaidKidsWantedLucky Author:Dick Van Dyke
