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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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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.
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Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.
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Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
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That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
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There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
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There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
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They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.
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When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.
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When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
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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.
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When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
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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.
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You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
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