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I don't have many easy songs.
You don’t swing where you sleep.
"The Entertainer" He did it all.
You don't swing where you sleep.
Imitations only better the original.
My home has always been show business.
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!
Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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.
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.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.