Dick Van Dyke’s secret to a long life? Not being angry

Dick Van Dyke may be approaching his 100th birthday, but he’s feeling 13. The 99-year-old Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star said so himself in a recent interview, crediting his long lifespan to his positive outlook — more specifically, the fact that he never gets angry.

“I’ve always thought that anger and hate is one thing that eats up a person’s insides,” the Bye Bye Birdie actor told People magazine in a recent interview. “And I never really was able to work up a feeling of hate. 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.” He added that his father, Loren Van Dyke, was “constantly upset by the state of things in his life and it did take him at 73 years old.”