Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
Artist
Autobiographer
Dancer
Entertainer
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Samuel George Davis Jr.
Really
Welcome
Wouldn
Talent
White
House
Without
More quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Entertainer He did it all.
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.
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
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 get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
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.
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.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
