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.

Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

My home has always been show business.

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

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

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.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.