You don’t swing where you sleep.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

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.

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

My home has always been show business.

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