Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Patience, Stupidity, Alcohol

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What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Education, Money, Talent

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Until, Baby, Seen

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Before, Able, Hear

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Fear, Two, Choices

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Car, Money, Space

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Sexy, Fight, Known

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Him, Before, Color

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Self, Mystery, Ultimate

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Bad, Reality, Ourselves

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Another, Star, Breathe

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Business, Show, Happens

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Strong, Learned, Become

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Talent, House, Welcome

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Hope, Possible, Star

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Break, Taking, Forgotten

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Father's Day, Father, Special

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Time, Bad, Lose

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Children, May, Around

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Youth, Three, Along

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Stage, Exactly, Jackson

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Another, Guy, Fame

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Him, Give, Country

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Live, House, Hollywood

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: December 8, 1925

Died: May 16, 1990

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