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.
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My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.
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I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.
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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.
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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 don't do it.
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We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
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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.
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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.
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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 won an Emmy. That was a big night.
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I have four children and I have seven grandkids.
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My kids are so much better parent than I was.
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I loved to fall down.
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Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
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I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
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I wanted to be a radio announcer.
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I never made a good movie.
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I don't have any children, I have four middle-aged people.
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You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
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So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.
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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
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I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.
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