Best 55 quotes of Sammy Davis on MyQuotes

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

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.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

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.

I don't have many easy songs.

If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

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.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

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.

Imitations only better the original.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

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.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

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

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

My home has always been show business.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

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

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.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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 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.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

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.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.