Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

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

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

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.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

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

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

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.