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.
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.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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.
My home has always been show business.
You don't swing where you sleep.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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.
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 bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
