It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

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.

I owe everything to the army.

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.

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

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

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

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

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

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

God is in need of godly servants to send to the religious world to bring back his kingdom there

You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

We are citizens of eternity.

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

I don't like conflict.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.