All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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 don't have many easy songs.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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.
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
"The Entertainer" He did it all.
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
