I do play drums when I'm on tour.

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.

If you want success roll your sleeves up and fight for it!

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.

I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

The message sent is not always the message received.