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

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.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

You don’t swing where you sleep.

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

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.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.