To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

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.

If people buy your story, you'll never run dry.

UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

Don't look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.

Money is just another word for power.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.