“Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences.”

Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo… Kangaroo – Captain Kangaroo … I’m the keeper here of the Treasure House.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday’s children as well. It’s nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, ‘You were a good friend.’ That’s the warmest part.

Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

” What do you mean? What you mean is that they want to look back in history. And so I think it’s only natural for entertainment to reflect that.

And you can constantly look back when you’re in some sort of fix and say, “Well, on so-and-so film, we did this, and it worked out fine.”

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Any time you lose a few in a row, you have to hit reset and come back tomorrow and do the best you can to forget about how the past series went. It’s frustrating.

There’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “

The music industry’s very laid back while I’m very, very aggressive.

Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.