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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
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Dancer
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Jazz Musician
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New York City
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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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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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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Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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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.
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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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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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In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
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On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
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Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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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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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
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.
