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
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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.
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I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.
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I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.
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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.
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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.
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The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
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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.
jobs actors
I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.
eight appreciate enough
I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.
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From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
children actors radio
I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
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I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
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To be hungry must be awful.
accentuate
You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.