Quotes By Sammy Davis Jr.

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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.

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.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

My home has always been show business.

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 them so I drop them.

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

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

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.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

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

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.

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

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

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.

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.

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

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