Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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

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.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.