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

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.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

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

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.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.