Radio was the greatest training ground. You had to be very quick and you had to be very versatile... and you were surrounded by such wonderful actors.

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

I'd hate to be stranded on a desert island, unless it were Hawaii, but I'd certainly enjoy seeing these films over and over until rescued.

I think one of the reasons all the comics I worked with dropped off the log so early, and a lot of them did - Tony Hancock, Frankie, Sid James, it's dreadful really - was the stress. You can only be as good or better than the last show, and there's the permanent aggro of hoping you get the right writers and the right material.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.