Top 989 Sammy Davis Jr Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Whether at the Olympic Games or during a Davis Cup tie I am extremely proud and honored to represent my country.
You can't replace Davis Cup with something else. Its love and lore won't be surpassed any time soon.
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.
Phryne Fisher could walk down the red carpet; Essie Davis is something else.
Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes.
To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.
I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.
Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.
Davis Cup, you know, does take a lot out of you over the weekend. It's tough, especially if you play all three days.
Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.
What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.
Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.
It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.
The Davis Cup should be home and away from the semi-finals as a minimum, I would say even the quarters.
For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.
When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
I know Charles Michael Davis. I used to play poker with him when I lived in Los Angeles.
I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.
All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
I have boxes of gospel LPs and 78s. The Davis Sisters, the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travellers. I love all that.
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.
Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.
I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.
From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.
The Tony Stark I grew up with wasn't as snappy and as quippy as Downey Jr. made him, but now I only think of his performance.
Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
Miles Davis is my go-to for music. There's something so relaxing and ambient about it, and it can be a little manic in a good way.
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
Lincoln Davis has supported Nancy Pelosi's anti-business, big government policies a disturbing 83% of the time.
The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.
Playing Martin Luther King Jr. was an honor for me on so many levels. It was the most I've ever prepared for a role.
I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.
I am a music freak. My tastes run the gamut from Willie Nelson to Metallica to Miles Davis.
Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.
I know that no matter what is said about Martin the King Jr., what he contributed, what he gave, what he meant, what he means all over this planet cannot be tarnished.
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.
I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.
With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
My father was strict. He knew how to have a good relationship with Dory Jr. and I. He was our best friend, but we had a lot of fear.
I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.
I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
I mean, I see the old interviews with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, these characters clawed their way up - what stories.
