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  • Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
  • [when asked what his golf handicap was] My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed black Jew! THAT'S my handicap!
  • I'm colored, Jewish and Puerto Rican. When I move into a neighborhood, I wipe it out!
  • You have to be able to look back at your own life and say, "Yeah, that was fun." The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.
  • I'm 64 years old, but I feel I've lived the life of a person at 164.
  • [on Richard Burton] There is nothing he can't do. He is a wonder and a joy to watch.
  • [on Laurence Olivier] If you had to worship something mortal on Earth, I would go and bow twice a day to wherever Olivier was standing.

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