Quotes By Sammy Davis Jr.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

You don't swing where you sleep.

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.

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

I don't have many easy songs.

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

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