Dick Van Dyke - According to Van Dyke, he has “never really able to work up a feeling of hate” and attributes reaching 99 to his "brighter outlook”. "I’ve always thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person’s insides – and hate,” he told US magazine People. “There were things I didn’t like, people I don’t like and disapprove of. But I never really was able to do a white heat kind of hate."
Van Dyke also credited much of his survival to his wife Arlene, who is aged 54. “Without question, our ongoing romance is the most important reason I have not withered away into a hermetic grouch,” Van Dyke wrote in a recent health diary for The Times.
“Arlene is half my age, and she makes me feel somewhere between two-thirds and three-quarters my age, which is still saying a lot.”