You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

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

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.

I don't have many easy songs.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.