Quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.

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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.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

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.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

You don't swing where you sleep.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

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.

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

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.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Sammy Davis, Jr.