If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.