Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

You don't swing where you sleep.

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.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

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.

You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.