Dick Van Dyke says avoiding two components of life have allowed him to reside for 99 years

Dick Van Dyke has put his 99 years of dwelling down to 2 issues that many people are most likely not doing sufficient.

Forward of his landmark birthday on 13 December, the legendary Mary Poppins actor admitted that he ‘feels actually good for 100’.

Recognized for his roles in The Dick Van Dyke Present (1961–1966), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and plenty of others, the award-winning performer has been previewing his book 100 Causes For Residing to 100: An Optimist’s Information to Life.

In a latest interview with PEOPLE from his Malibu residence, Van Dyke revealed that even at his age, he typically ‘has extra vitality than others’ and ‘by no means wakes up in a nasty temper’.

“Individuals say ‘What did you do proper?’. I don’t know. I’m fairly lazy,” the comic admitted.

Though, he defined that letting go of ‘anger’ and ‘hate’ has taken him a good distance.

“I’ve at all times thought that anger is one factor that eats up an individual’s insides — and hate. And I by no means actually was in a position to work up a sense of hate. I feel that is among the chief issues that saved me going,” Van Dyke stated.

“There have been issues I didn’t like, folks I do not like and disapprove of.

“However I by no means actually was in a position to do a white warmth form of hate.

“My father was consistently upset by the state of issues in his life, and it did take him at 73 years outdated.”

On his ideas about life after demise, he added: “Once you expire, you expire. I don’t have any worry of dearth for some motive.

“I can’t clarify that however I don’t. I’ve had such a splendidly full and thrilling life. That I can’t complain.”

Van Dyke has been married to 54-year-old make-up artist Arlene Silver since 2012, and he credit her for making him really feel younger.

“She’s accountable for protecting me within the second,” he stated.

“She saved me completely satisfied daily of my life, daily. She’s a pleasure.

“She will get me singing or dancing and he or she carries a lot duty… I am simply fortunate.”

As for his legacy, he says that remembering him is not too vital, however he needs his music might be sung for generations to come back.

“What I left in the way in which of kids’s leisure and kids’s music — that’s my legacy,” he added.

“For so long as kids are proudly belting out their new phrase, ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,’ or singing and skipping alongside to ‘Chim Chim Cher-ee,’ an important a part of me will at all times be alive.”