Quotes By Sammy Davis Jr.

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.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

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

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.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

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.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

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.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

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

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

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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 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.

My home has always been show business.

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

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

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

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

You don't swing where you sleep.

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.

I don't have many easy songs.

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