Dick Van Dyke has joked that it would be “funny” if he “didn’t make” his 100th birthday, as he admitted that he “should take better care” of himself.
The Mary Poppins legend is just two months away from its major milestone birthday, which will be celebrated on December 13.
Nevertheless, he appears to harbor concerns that he won’t survive the brief remaining weeks. Speaking at the Vandy High Tea event in California, Dick said: “That’s right. I’m not officially a hundred until December. Two months. Two months. It’d be funny if I didn’t make it.”
The Hollywood icon later suggested that he “would’ve taken better care” of himself had he known he was going to live for so long and quipped that marrying his second wife, Arlene Silver, in 2012 was the only clever decision he had made.
He said, “I brag sometimes about how I made it to a hundred, and the truth is, if I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself. And it is frustrating because I don’t know what I did right. Other than her (Arlene), I didn’t do anything right.”
“I would have starved in any other business. Being on the stage – there’s nothing like it in the world for anyone who can experience it. I pity the people who can’t get on the stage. Good God, it was fun!”.
The Chitty Bang Bang star also shared a memory from the first time he met Arlene at the SAG Awards in 2006.
He recalled: “She walked by and without even thinking, I jumped up and said, ‘Hi, I’m Dick.’ I found out she was a makeup lady, hired her, and now we’ve been married 13 years.”
The veteran actor, who has been in the industry for over six decades, concluded, “I couldn’t be happier.”
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