I quit the Rat Pack, and somehow the story became about everybody else needing me more than I needed them. by Dean Martin

Both of you are impossible. I built a whole career out of doing all the work and looking embarrassed by it.

Dean’s right. Jerry never walked into a scene, he arrived like a panic attack in cuff links.

And that’s why the legend survives: one of us sang like he meant it, one worked like he meant it, and Dean just made it look easy.

Jerry, you didn’t build a career out of embarrassment, you built it out of never sitting still long enough to be corrected.

Say what you want, but the audience always knew who was actually having a good time.

At least I arrived. Frank used to enter a room like the furniture owed him rent.

That’s rich coming from a man who treated every rehearsal like a suggestion.

Frank, I treated rehearsals the way you treated any room: like I’d already won it.