Sammy Davis, Jr.

“My home has always been show business.”

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

“I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.”

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

“To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.”

“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.”

“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”

“Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.”

“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.”

“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.”

“There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.”

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

“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.”