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

“My home has always been show business.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”