Famous Quotes

Quotes by Sammy Davis Jr

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
• 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.
• I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
• 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.
• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
• My home has always been show business.
• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
• Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
• 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.
• 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.
• There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
• What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
• You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
• You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.