Best Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
- I don't have many easy songs. Easy
- My home has always been show business. Been
- 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… Belly
- To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. Appear
- You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it. Business
- 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… All
- Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity. Alcohol
- What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. Education
- Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before. Able
- A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made. Baby
- You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. Choices
- Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. Bad
- I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money. Car
- 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.… Cameras
- When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time. Bad
- I have to be a star like another man has to breathe. Another Man
- Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens. Business
- Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right. Doe
- 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. Break
- 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… Camaraderie
- With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart. Europe
- During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me. All
- 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. Another Guy
- I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much. Attempt
- 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… Go