Quotes By Sammy Davis Jr.

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

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

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

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 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.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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