Dick Van Patten Quotes

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.

We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.

My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.

I never thought radio would fizzle out.

I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.

I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.

My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.

I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.

You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs ... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.