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.
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.
I don’t have many easy songs.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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.