Dick Van Dyke may have hit the gym before his 98th birthday, but the iconic actor admits he’s a “pretty lazy” person by nature.“As a businessman, I’m 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’t aggressive, so I was out of work a lot because I didn’t go out and look for it,” Dyke said in a new interview on “CBS Sunday Morning.”“I didn’t mind it.
I’m pretty lazy, really,” he continued. “When I’m having fun, all right, but I’m a lazy person. I don’t have a lot of drive.
I’ve been very lucky.”His career has spanned more than 60 decades, with highlights including 158 episodes on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” 1963’s “Bye Bye Birdie,” 1964’s “Mary Poppins” alongside Julie Andrews, and “The New Dick Van Dyke Show” from 1971 to 1974.On “CBS Sunday Morning,” he was asked if he wondering why he was still around when former colleagues such as Norman Lear, Carl Reiner and Mary Tyler Moore were gone. (Lear died at age 101 earlier this month.)“Everybody I knew and worked with, there’s no one left,” he said, adding that Reiner and Lear were his “two favorite human beings.”“If I’d known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself,” he said, laughing. “I went through that whole period of alcoholism.”“But my wife [Arlene Silver, 52], god bless her, makes sure I go to the gym three times a week and do a full workout.”Dyke has been sober since checking into a hospital for three weeks in 1972.
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