Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

Quotes

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

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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 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.

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

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

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