Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

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.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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

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

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.

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

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

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

I don't have many easy songs.

You don't swing where you sleep.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

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

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

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.

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

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.