I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

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.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

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

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

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

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

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.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

The love for literature is a great light.

If the solar winds have stirred far off in the velvety night then showers of light --gold and violet. rose and green--paint the sky.

That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

You're gonna get helped, if you're lacking it, in any way, because everybody's objective is to make a good picture.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.