My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
Dick Van Dyke
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.”
“It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.”
“Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking about it now, they've never left.”
“I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.”
“We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.”
“I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.”
“Be careful not to trip over the ottoman.”
“The best writers were philosophers who wrapped their commentary about life in laughter.”
“In my early fifties, I was going through a phase where few things felt right and I was trying to figure out those that did. It was not uncommon. In your twenties, you pursue your dreams. By your late thirties and early forties, you hit a certain stride. Then you hit your fifties, you get your first annoying thoughts of mortality, you begin more serious questioning of not just the meaning of your life but of what’s working, what’s not working, and what you still want, and all of a sudden you don’t know which way is up. You thought you knew but don’t. You just want to get to where life feels okay again.”
“I found myself thinking about what worked for me, and also what I wanted to do for work, what was important to me, and what I wanted my work to say about me.”
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