Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
You don't swing where you sleep.
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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.
My home has always been show business.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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 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.
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.
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.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
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.
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.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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.
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.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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.
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
I don't have many easy songs.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!
You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."
After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.
If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
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.
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.
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