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.
I hadn’t been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn’t show for my wedding.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon’s urgings for me to go there.
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.
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
You don’t swing where you sleep.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
Part of show business is magic. You don’t know how it happens.
We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
There’s nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
When you lose a lover it’s like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
My home has always been show business.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.