My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

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.

God does not give us more than we can handle, " I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics.

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters.

Hamlet at 70: "To sleep, perchance to dream. To awaken, perchance to go to the bathroom."