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

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.

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.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

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.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!