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

I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I want to know is, 'Was he my friend?', 'Did I enjoy him as a performer?', 'Did he give the world of entertainment something?' - and the answer is YES on all accounts. The other jazz just don't matter.

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

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

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

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

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.