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

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

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.

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.