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Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up. -- Dave Foley
There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation. -- Suzanne Somers
'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun job. -- Mike Scully
The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. -- Matthew Sweet
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. -- Douglas Wood
I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it. -- Willa Holland
There's no tradition today except initials, 'CSI,' 'NCIS,' all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don't know there was a 'Dick Van Dyke Show,' or 'Andy Griffith,' or 'Cheers.' -- Bill Cosby
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party. -- Matthew Sweet
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. -- Colin Mochrie
I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian. -- Ted Danson
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. -- Mary Tyler Moore
'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life. -- Dick Van Dyke
All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play. -- Dick Van Dyke
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. -- Dick Van Dyke
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. -- Dick Van Dyke
Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job. -- Alastair Campbell
The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life. -- Dick Van Dyke
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. -- Audre Lorde
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. -- Mary Tyler Moore
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee. -- Jeffrey Klarik
[On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend. -- Yvonne Zipter
February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like. -- Thomas Tusser
I am a dyke! And I'm damn proud of it! -- Joan Rivers
Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke! -- Lea DeLaria
Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks. -- Susie Bright
Then there's the in-between, not a lipstick lesbian, not a butch dyke. I think that is what I'd be, a sweatpants lesbian. -- Adam Carolla
My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.' -- Lea DeLaria
Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and women, and finally they ruin themselves, accidentally, simply by getting old. -- Zadie Smith

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