{"id":312009,"date":"2025-11-28T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312009\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:23:10","slug":"dick-van-dyke-says-avoiding-two-common-things-is-the-key-to-a-long-life-as-he-nears-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312009\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Van Dyke says avoiding two common things is the key to a long life as he nears 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mary Poppins<\/a> and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang <\/a>actor Dick Van Dyke<\/a> has shared what he claims is his secret to a long life, weeks before turning 100.<\/p>\n

The American star, who is due to reach the milestone age<\/a> on 13 December, said in a new interview he has successfully avoided anger and hate throughout his life, which is \u201cone of the chief things that kept me going\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Van Dyke, he has \u201cnever really able to work up a feeling of hate\u201d and attributes reaching 99 to his “brighter outlook\u201d.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve always thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person\u2019s insides \u2013 and hate,\u201d he told US magazine People<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were things I didn\u2019t like, people I don\u2019t like and disapprove of. But I never really was able to do a white heat kind of hate.”<\/p>\n

Van Dyke also credited much of his survival to his wife Arlene, who is aged 54<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout question, our ongoing romance is the most important reason I have not withered away into a hermetic grouch,\u201d Van Dyke wrote in a recent health diary for The Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cArlene is half my age, and she makes me feel somewhere between two-thirds and three-quarters my age, which is still saying a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Dick<\/p>\n

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Dick Van Dyke on his way to collect a Daytime Emmy in Los Angeles in June 2024 (Getty)<\/p>\n

In the same article, he said he feels \u201cdiminished\u201d both \u201cphysically and socially\u201d<\/a>, and revealed that \u201cevery single one of my dearest lifelong friends is gone, which feels just as lonely as it sounds\u201d.<\/p>\n

Despite nearing a century, Van Dyke remains active, having released a new book, 100 Rules For Living To 100. \u201cEach rule springs from a story in my own life, which I believe has stuck itself in my memory for a good reason \u2013 because it had some broader emotional significance for me,\u201d he says of the book.<\/p>\n

The actor who also starred in a Coldplay music video last year, expresses a youthful spirit, stating, “I feel really good for 100. Sometimes I have more energy than others \u2013 but I never wake up in a bad mood. I feel like I\u2019m about 13.”<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his legacy, the entertainer isn’t concerned with personal remembrance, but rather the enduring joy his work brings. “But it\u2019s the music, the music we leave behind,” he mused. <\/p>\n

“For as long as children are proudly belting out their new word, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, or singing and skipping along to Chim Chim Cher-ee, the most important part of me will always be alive.”<\/p>\n

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Dick Van Dyke is best known for starring in movies like ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Van Dyke\u2019s illustrious career spans over seven decades, garnering him numerous accolades including four Emmys, a Tony for Bye Bye Birdie, and a Grammy for the Mary Poppins soundtrack. He was inducted into the Television Hall Of Fame in 1995 and holds a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He summarises his journey as “a wonderfully full and exciting life, that I can\u2019t complain.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-312009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}