I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance too, but it hurts now!

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.

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.

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20 minutes. So I don't think they can really do a beginning, a middle, and an end anymore. There's an awful lot of one-line jokes; almost every line is a punchline. It's not the same, but there's still good comedy around.