Dick Van Dyke has had a “splendidly full and thrilling life”.
The Hollywood star will flip 100 on December 13, and Dick stays grateful for the alternatives which have come his method in the course of the course of his profession.
Dick informed Individuals: “Whenever you expire, you expire. I don’t have any worry of loss of life for some motive. I can’t clarify that however I don’t. I’ve had such a splendidly full and thrilling life. That I can’t complain.”
The legendary film star credit his spouse, Arlene, for his optimistic outlook.
He shared: “She’s chargeable for maintaining me within the second.
“She saved me completely satisfied every single day of my life, every single day. She’s a pleasure. She will be able to get me singing or dancing and he or she carries a lot duty … I am simply fortunate.”
The film star – whose movie credit embrace Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins – feels happy with the legacy that he’ll depart behind.
Dick mentioned: “What I left in the best way of youngsters’s leisure and youngsters’s music — that’s my legacy.
“I don’t assume remembering me is that essential. But it surely’s the music, the music we depart behind. For so long as kids are proudly belting out their new phrase, ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,’ or singing and skipping alongside to ‘Chim Chim Cher-ee,’ a very powerful a part of me will all the time be alive.”
Dick thinks his optimistic outlook is one thing that is all the time come naturally to him.
He mentioned: “I feel I’ve determined that persons are born with an outlook.
“I simply assume I used to be born with a brighter outlook. I take a look at the horizon. I feel some persons are born simply to should battle in opposition to a downward spiral. And after 100 years, I feel I’m proper.”
Regardless of this, Dick beforehand revealed that he “by no means deliberate” to turn into an actor.
He informed New York Journal: “My entire life was unplanned.
“Simply the subsequent alternative that got here alongside — one good thing after one other. I by no means deliberate something.
“One job led into one other one, and I simply saved working and having fun with it. I’m a ham. I don’t know, one thing occurs and I come alive and I wish to carry out. I’d have starved in another enterprise. Being on the stage — there’s nothing prefer it on this planet for anybody who can expertise it. I pity the individuals who can’t get on the stage. Good God, it was enjoyable!”
