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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
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Television Actor
New York City
New York
Samuel George Davis Jr.
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More quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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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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.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
