Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke
Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dykeis an American actor, comedian, writer, singer, dancer, and producer whose career in entertainment has spanned almost seven decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth13 December 1925
CityWest Plains, MO
kids thinking two
I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it's born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.
kids son four
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.
kids bird feelings
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.'
kids parent parenthood
My kids are so much better parent than I was.
kids delight littles
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
kids grandfather four
I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
brother kids poor
My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.
kids want watches
When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
ambition kids going-out
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. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
kids lucky want
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.
children mean kids
I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.
kids normal normal-life
So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.
home kids comedian
When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.
kids car
I had an uncle who had a car with a rumble seat, and I used to love to ride in that thing. I mentioned this to some kids, and they were like, "What are you even talking about?"