The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.