Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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.
Didn
Much
Hate
More quotes by 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.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Imitations only better the original.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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.
Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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.
Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
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 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.
