"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."

"There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity."

"We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him."

"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."

"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."

"Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?"

"Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not."

"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."

"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."

"I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it."

"I don't have many easy songs."

"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."

"During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me."

"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity."

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

"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."

"I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4."

"Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens."

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

"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."

"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."

"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."

"When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time."

"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."

"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 have to be a star like another man has to breathe."

"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food."

"My home has always been show business."

"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."

"The ultimate mystery is one's own self."

"With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart."

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

"You don't swing where you sleep."

"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."

"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."

"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."

"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made."

"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."

"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."

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

"I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt."

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

"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."

"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."

"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."

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

"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."

"Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right."

"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."