Dick Van Dyke is closing in on his 100th birthday.
The 99-year-old actor revealed how he’s feeling about his upcoming milestone birthday on Dec. 13 in a new interview with People.
“I hope I make it,” Van Dyke told the outlet while sitting beside his wife, Arlene Silver, 54, at their Malibu home.
The comedian also gave an update on his health, sharing that he’s a bit hard of hearing and a tad wobbly.
However, Van Dyke clarified that he “feels really good for 100.”
“Sometimes I have more energy than others — but I never wake up in a bad mood,” he stated, adding, “I feel like I’m about 13.”
“People say ‘What did you do right?’ I don’t know. I’m rather lazy,” Van Dyke continued. “I’ve always thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person’s insides — and hate. 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.”
The TV icon went on, “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. My father was constantly upset by the state of things in his life and it did take him at 73 years old.”
Van Dyke also revealed that he doesn’t “have any fear of death for some reason.”
“I can’t explain that but I don’t,” he shared. “I’ve had such a wonderfully full and exciting life. That I can’t complain.”
The “Marry Poppins” star, who married Silver in 2012, credited his much-younger wife with helping him feel youthful still.
“She’s responsible for keeping me in the moment,” he said. “She kept me happy every day of my life, every day. She’s a joy. She can get me singing or dancing and she carries so much responsibility … I’m just lucky.”
Van Dyke is expressing more of his optimistic attitude — and sharing stories from his incredible life — in his new book, “100 Rules for Living to 100.”
“Each rule springs from a story in my own life, which I believe has stuck itself in my memory for a good reason — because it had some broader emotional significance for me,” he told People.
Earlier this month, Van Dyke admitted that he feels “diminished” ahead of his 100th birthday.
“It’s frustrating to feel diminished in the world, physically and socially,” he told The Times, adding that he can barely travel far anymore because it “takes so much out of me.”
But Van Dyke remains motivated in life, including by hitting the gym three times a week.
“I don’t know why this is something I still want to do but it is,” he said in The Times interview. “If I miss too many gym days, I really can feel it — a stiffness creeping in here and there. If I let that set in, well, God help me.”
