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

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.

Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.

Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep.

Better naive and fearless than smart and anxious.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about-enjoying things.

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

I'm a huge sports fan.