My home has always been show business.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

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

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

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.

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