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I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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More quotes by 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.
If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
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.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
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.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
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.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
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.
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.
Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Imitations only better the original.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
