A Quote by Dick Van Dyke

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

Dick Van Dyke

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About Being Being Old Curmudgeon Much Old Otherwise Quite Same

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Dick Van Dyke
American - Actor
Born: December 13, 1925

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

Jonathan Frid

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.

Edward Abbey

I'm quite a cantankerous soul. People have this impression that I have a happy disposition. But I'm dark and cynical underneath.

Kathy Burke

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

Peter Hook

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

James Garner

I get older I get more cantankerous, but June [Hillary] gets a bit more cantankerous, too.

Edmund Hillary

Being on the road, because you do so much waiting and so much traveling. It's not the same thing as being in the same city for a week or two weeks and then another city. It's really hard. I don't think people understand this about being a touring musician, or a touring actor, or somebody who flies everywhere for business. It's incredibly disorienting.

How to Dress Well

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

James Gibbons

Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with as much ease. It was more like, when you've seen photos of cameras from the 1930s being moved around with these huge cranes. So there was something quite sort of old-fashioned about it almost.

James Frain

If I could have the tabloids stop writing as much about me, and still get paid the same amount that I do, then I'd be quite happy. But I suppose it comes with the other things. If I'm not in the public eye, and then I'm not wanted, and I'm not getting endorsements, I'm not being talked about, my records aren't going to be bought.

Tulisa

As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

Alexandra Petri

This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

Stacy Keach

I think Finn Balor is more about confidence, a smarter version of Prince Devitt. Otherwise, they have the same core values, same techniques, and the same heart.

Finn Balor

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Ariel Pink

Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.