I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!

The fight for survival is the fight

Everybody who is young is promising. The world should sue the young for breach of promise.

The way to Elfin is found on the pathThat weaves through the Misty ForestThat lives between the Mountain of VisionAnd the River of Reality

Don’t blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.

but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

I'm most proud of the fact that I get to keep growing.