The Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star is due to reach the milestone age on December 13, and said he is not bothered about being remembered.<\/p>\n
But he said: “But it’s the music, the music we leave behind.<\/p>\n
“For as long as children are proudly belting out their new word, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, or singing and skipping along to Chim Chim Cher-ee, the most important part of me will always be alive.”<\/p>\n
He told US magazine People he was unsure why he had got to such an old age but said he had always had “a brighter outlook”.<\/p>\n
He said: “I’ve always thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person’s insides – and hate.<\/p>\n
“And I never really was able to work up a feeling of hate. I think that is one of the chief things that kept me going.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Van Dyke, who released a new book – 100 Rules For Living To 100 – this month, appeared in a Coldplay music video last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star is due to reach the milestone age on December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}