The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.