Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Less, Stunt, Publicity

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Time, Played, Cities

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Wedding, Show, Word

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

War, President, Vietnam

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Nothing, Friends, Lived

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Beautiful, May, Young

My home has always been show business.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Home, Business, Show

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Success, Human, Real

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

After, Become, Debt

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Easy, Rights, Anybody

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Love, Success, Wife

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Done, Find, Line

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Love, Success, Work

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Romantic, Time, Belong

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Laugh, After, Sick

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Nothing, Dignity, Match

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Love, Food, Soul

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Death, Mistakes, Drunk

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Him, Violence, Worst

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Child, She, Used

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Heart, Friends, Keep

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Woman, Treat, Child

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

You don't swing where you sleep.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: December 8, 1925

Died: May 16, 1990

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