 During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4. |
| 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. |
| Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before. |
| The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. |
| 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. |
| I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. |
| You don't swing where you sleep. |
| Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart. |
| Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. |
| Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived. |
| Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. |
| Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside. |
| Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not. |
| With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart. |
| May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin. |
| 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. |
| Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers? |
