- I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.
- I remember in the book that Caractacus was married. There was no love interest, no love story. So I think bringing Truly Scrumptious in works very well because we had assumed he was a widower. And they couldn't have picked a better Truly Scrumptious than Sally [Sally Ann Howes]. They came up with Sally Ann and I heard her voice, and it was the richest contralto. She auditioned with "The Lovely Lonely Man" and I thought, "My God, this girl is great!" and then she was stunningly beautiful. She loved those kids and they loved her, which I think comes across on the screen. They just thought a great deal of her and she spent a lot of time with them, you know, between shots - telling stories and playing games during all those long waiting periods.
- I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.
- I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
- In the best of all worlds the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't. And then I - they keep saying we can't have our First Amendment rights abridged and we can't have censorship. Well we had it back in the Hayes days, in the Johnson office days. And I think they should - maybe the American people might bring it back if things get bad enough.
- I think it's such a shame that Walt didn't live to see computer animation, because he would have had a good time with it ... In those days it was before the blue screen. They used what was called yellow sulphur lighting - the screen was yellow, and we worked with that all day, and by the time the day was over you couldn't see anything ... It was just an empty soundstage. And sometimes we didn't even have the music - we would just dance to a click rhythm. But I think technically it holds up today just as well as anything.
- I thought Walt Disney hired me because I was such a great singer and dancer. As it turns out, he had heard me in an interview talking about what was happening to family entertainment. I was decrying the fact that it seemed like no holds were barred anymore in entertainment ... That's why he called me in, because I said something he agreed with. And I got the part. - On Mary Poppins (1964)
- It was a marvelous relaxer ... Jack Daniel's became my good friend. Then sometime in my early forties he turned on me.
- But at the time, I thought I would come out, because there was such a strange perception about alcoholism that people had serious character flaws, you know. They had weak wills or something. They had this image of, you know, a guy laying in on the street and skid row, whereas it can happen to normal, average middle-class guy.
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