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

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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

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. Quote

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.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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. Quote

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.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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

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.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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

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. Quote

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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. Quote

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.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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. Quote

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

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.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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

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

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Quote

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

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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