Dick Van Patten

Actor

United States

1928 - 2015

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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.
Dick Van Patten
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.
Dick Van Patten
We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
Dick Van Patten
It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
Dick Van Patten
I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.
Dick Van Patten
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.
Dick Van Patten
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.
Dick Van Patten
My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.
Dick Van Patten
I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week.
Dick Van Patten
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.
Dick Van Patten