Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

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• "The Entertainer" He did it all.
• Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
• My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's…
• Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
• You don’t swing where you sleep.
• I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
• My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!
• Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
• If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
• On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
• I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I want to know…
• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
• 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…
• All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
• You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."
• 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.…
• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
• The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning,…

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