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“Today, with the subject matter that's around politically, and internationally and everything, I think Carl Reiner would have a ball. I think the format should stay the same. I'd sure love to see him dealing with it today.”

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Dick Van Dyke

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“Only funny line I've had was my first day on the set of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They were making me up, and I saw the director call the makeup man over, and he says "What are we going to do about the hooter?" And the makeup guy said, "I'm not a plastic surgeon." So I started that show with a big nose, and quite conscious of it.”

Men Guy Conscious Makeup Surgeons

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I think the biggest mistake - I was always a big fan of Cary Grant, and he asked me to do a movie with him, playing the second lead, and I didn't do it. And to this day, I can't remember why. But I could've said I worked with Cary Grant, but I turned him down. That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made.”

Thinking Remember Mistake This Day Biggest Mistake

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.”

Risk Type Managers Retirement Valleys Retiring Wiser Introvert Billionaire Silicon Silicon Valley Funny Retirement

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.”

Book Luck Surprise Right Time

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.”

Long Singing Dancing

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"”

People Men Age Fun Terrible Old Man Longevity Grandparent Old People

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.”

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.”

Lucky Producers Now And Then

Author:George Carlin

“There's a thing about cocaine - when I was doing it secretly, it didn't make me very sociable. I forget how others were, but it made me very inner-directed. So being in a sketch and rehearsing and the "hail fellow well met" camaraderie and all that stuff, I couldn't fake that or force that. It was painful.”

Forget Painful Fake Cocaine Camaraderie

Author:George Carlin

“There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for the American culture, because to get back to the real root of it, to get broader about it, my opinion that is my species - and my culture in America specifically - have let me down and betrayed me. I think this species had great, great promise, with this great upper brain that we have, and I think we squandered it on God and Mammon. And I think this culture of ours has such promise, with the promise of real, true freedom, and then everyone has been shackled by ownership and possessions and acquisition and status and power.”

Thinking Real Culture Brain Opinion Promise Let Me Possession Righteous Ownership Betrayed American Culture True Freedom Let Me Down

Author:George Carlin

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