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."

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Fame creates its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch -- unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

"I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives."

Being a star made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.