It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.