20 Quotes By Sammy Davis, Jr.


Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on business

My home has always been show business.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on business

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on business

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on car

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on dad

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on death

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on education

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on fear

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on food

My home has always been show business.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on home

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on hope

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on money

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on money

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on patience

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on romantic

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on success

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on success

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on success

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on war

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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on wedding