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The Entertainer He did it all.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
Artist
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Dancer
Entertainer
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Samuel George Davis Jr.
Entertainer
Entertainers
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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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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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.
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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 get insulted.
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In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
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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.
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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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Imitations only better the original.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
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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.
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If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
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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.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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