[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.