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Nice to see you, to see you nice
You can shuffle my deck any day!
I am not doddery... doddery I am not!
Did you write the words, or the lyrics?
Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.
Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.
It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.
I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.
I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.
People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.
When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.
I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.
My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.
Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?
Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.
That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.
If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.
When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.
It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.
I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews.
I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.
If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.
You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.
Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.
When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.