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"Dick Van Dyke has admitted that he feels &amp;quot;lucky&amp;quot; about the way his career has turned out. The 87-year-old spoke about his life in the business after picking up the &amp;#039;Lifetime Achievement Award&amp;#039; at last night&amp;#039;s (January 27) Screen Actors Guild Awards.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been so lucky,&amp;quot; he told reporters backstage. &amp;quot;Luck has a lot to do with it - being in the right place at the right time, having someone see you when you have to be particularly good. &amp;quot;For me, it was kind of heart in my mouth, I was a radio announcer originally - I thought that&amp;#039;s what I was going to be, and I&amp;#039;ve ended up singing and dancing in a Broadway show and television and movies. It was all a surprise to me.&amp;quot;      Van Dyke continued: &amp;quot;I love to perform. Usually if I&amp;#039;m performing without an audience, I really don&amp;#039;t know what I&amp;#039;m doing. I need an audience to do half the work. We always in the old Dick Van Dyke Show had an audience - we did it like a play. I love an audience. That&amp;#039;s why I&amp;#039;m not very good in movies, because there&amp;#039;s nobody there to play to.&amp;quot; Van Dyke, who said that he &amp;quot;did a lot of laughing&amp;quot; throughout his career, also joked that there is a downside to his &amp;#039;Lifetime Achievement&amp;#039; gong.  &amp;quot;You know, all the other awards look heavy, but this one - it weighs about 30lbs!&amp;quot; he laughed. &amp;quot;You should try it. It&amp;#039;s a good 30lb. Anyway, that&amp;#039;s why they don&amp;#039;t hand it to you [on stage] - you could drop it and break your toe.&amp;quot; During his acceptance speech, Van Dyke revealed that he was a &amp;quot;happy man&amp;quot; to count the other actors at the ceremony as his peers. Photo gallery - SAG Awards best- and worst-dressed:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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