Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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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.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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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.
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Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
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Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
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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.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
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You don’t swing where you sleep.
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There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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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.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I want to know is, 'Was he my friend?', 'Did I enjoy him as a performer?', 'Did he give the world of entertainment something?' - and the answer is YES on all accounts. The other jazz just don't matter.
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Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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Imitations only better the original.
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Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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