Quotes By Sammy Davis Jr.

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 bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

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.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

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

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

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.

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

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

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.

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

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.

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

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

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

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

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

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

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

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

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

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.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

My home has always been show business.

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