Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Sammy Davis Jr. on Wise Famous Quotes.
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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.
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.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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.
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.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking,
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.