Dick Van Patten Quotes

• We’re feeding all these zoos. And that’s getting bigger and bigger.

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• We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it’s not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

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• We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations.

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• To be hungry must be awful.

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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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• 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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• It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

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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.

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• I’ve probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

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• I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

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• I was a child actor in radio, and there’s not many of us left.

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• I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It’s a crime not to help them.

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• 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.

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Dick Van Patten (14)

Birth:	9th December, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Businessman

About

Richard Vincent "Dick" Van Patten is an American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television sitcom Eight is Enough. He began work as a child actor and was successful on the New York stage, appearing in more than a dozen plays as a teenager.

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