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I've been to Cuba many times.

I've been going to Cuba since the Elian Gonzalez affair.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

I'd like to go to Cuba.

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!

In 1958, I was shooting a movie in Florida, and I decided to go to Havana, Cuba, to see what it was like.

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.