I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

We should never judge a day by its weather.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.