I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.
Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
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.
I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.
A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.
I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
I never made a good movie.
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
