Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

My home has always been show business.

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.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

I don't have many easy songs.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

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.

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

You don’t swing where you sleep.

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.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

I wasn’t anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.