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.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

My home has always been show business.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.

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.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.