Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

I like show business - performing. I can't think of anything better.

I will continue to entertain the great British public. Because that is what I love doing.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I played comedies and dramas.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

I'm in showbusiness. I'm an entertainer.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living, and I can't help but continue to do it.

I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.