Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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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.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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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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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.
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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 go and get insulted.
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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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I don't have many easy songs.
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When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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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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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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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.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.