My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

You don’t swing where you sleep.