I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.

I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

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.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'