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.
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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.
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 more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
My home has always been show business.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.