{"id":62578,"date":"2023-12-17T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/17\/dick-van-dyke-reveals-he-spent-a-lot-of-time-out-of-work-im-a-pretty-lazy-person\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T23:01:31","slug":"dick-van-dyke-reveals-he-spent-a-lot-of-time-out-of-work-im-a-pretty-lazy-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/17\/dick-van-dyke-reveals-he-spent-a-lot-of-time-out-of-work-im-a-pretty-lazy-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Van Dyke reveals he spent a lot of time ‘out of work’: ‘I’m a pretty lazy person…’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Dick Van Dyke<\/a> is a “pretty lazy” person.<\/p>\n

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Dick Van Dyke says he is a lazy person<\/p>\n

The 98-year-old actor – who is best known for his roles in classic musical films like ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ – explained that despite his successful movie career, he found himself unemployed a lot of the time because he was always just waiting around for an opportunity to come his way rather than going after it. <\/p>\n

Speaking on ‘CBS Sunday Mornings’, he said: “As a businessman, I\u2019m not much good. I would do a movie or something and come home and just sit down and wait for the phone to ring. I wasn\u2019t aggressive, so I was out of work a lot because I didn\u2019t go out and look for it. I didn\u2019t mind it. I\u2019m pretty lazy, really. When I\u2019m having fun, all right, but I\u2019m a lazy person. I don\u2019t have a lot of drive. I\u2019ve been very lucky.”<\/p>\n

However, the ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ star did go on to admit that his career has been a “blessing” in life and that he has sympathy for those who have enjoyed up in a job they dislike.<\/p>\n

He added: “My whole career has depended on that. If I\u2019m not enjoying myself, I\u2019m really bad. I am. It\u2019s such a blessing to find a way of making a living that you love, that\u2019d you do for nothing. I feel so sorry for people who hate their jobs. I look forward to going to work every morning.”<\/p>\n

\nThe Disney Legend also then reflected that there are not many of his industry peers still alive today as he quipped that if he thought he was still going to be alive so close to his 100th birthday, he would have taken “better care” of himself.<\/p>\n

\nHe added: “Everybody I knew and worked with, there\u2019s no one left. As I\u2019ve said, if I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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