Sober up, and you see and hear everything you’d been able to avoid hearing before.
Once I get outside my house in the morning, I’m on.
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.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
The civil rights movement wasn’t easy for anybody.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
If you want to be the best, baby, you’ve got to work harder than anybody else.
I wasn’t anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
I didn’t hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn’t be welcome at the White House.
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.
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you’re still functioning, you’re the luckiest person in the world.
In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men’s toys.