"My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer."
"You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy."
"Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain."
"When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting."
"This marriage is no one's business but our own."
"There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?"
"The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex."
"The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for."
"Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son."
"Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start."
"Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world."
"My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me."
"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."
"My entire life has been a lie."
"Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol."
"Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear."
"Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?"
"Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27."
"It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself."
"It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how."
"It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it."
"If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere."
"I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am."
"I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents."
"I'm a singer who moves like a dancer."
