Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
My home has always been show business.
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
