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

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.

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 you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

Logic doesn't overcome pain.

We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.

I try to stay in decent shape.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

I've directed five films and I've proven that people have made money with my films - many people have made money with my films.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.