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.
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 saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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 bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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.