I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say: "Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.

It's never too early to panic.