Quotes By Sammy Davis Jr.
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.