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.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

I hear music and my feet just start moving.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

People think I'm talking like I'm in perfect health, but I have all the infirmities for my age. I have arthritis and all those things. But if you keep moving, that won't bother you.

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.