I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

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.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

My home has always been show business.