Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
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If I'm nominated for Grammy I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
