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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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New York City
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
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.
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Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
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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.
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.
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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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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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.
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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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Entertainer He did it all.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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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