Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten
Richard Vincent "Dick" Van Pattenwas an American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the ABC television comedy-drama Eight Is Enough...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 December 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
came immense mix nostalgia people wonderful
I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.
snakes people rats
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.
loyalty animal people
I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
typical
My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother.
few
I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.
home
I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.
horses plays row
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.
job
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.
bowls eight food nine
I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
great millions nearly playing roles thousands
For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
bigger feeding
We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.
food
We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.
based food marketing pet principles scientific sound truth
We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
honest reaction
The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.