To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn’t be welcome at the White House. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon’s urgings for me to go there. – 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’d learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
I hadn’t been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn’t show for my wedding. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you’d been able to avoid hearing before. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That’s publicity, man. – 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 go and get insulted. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. – 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.