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Sammy Davis, Jr.

Read through the most famous quotes from 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.


#belly #drop #few #get #going

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#dignity #match #nothing #stature

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


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#i #i love #love #luxury #room

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


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#death #drunk #drunken #leave #making

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


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#assassination #could #him #king #pay

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#child #lap #liza #me #sammy

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#bad #getting #grows #haircut #like

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


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#european #friends #heart #keep #ocean

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#barriers #better #child #erect #fewer

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


— Sammy Davis, Jr.


#anything #business #know #still #years






About Sammy Davis, Jr.






Did you know about Sammy Davis, Jr.?

Gwar has an entire song dedicated to him on the album "Carnival of Chaos" called "Sammy". In September 2009 the musical Sammy: Once in a Lifetime premiered at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego with book music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional songs by Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Davis started as a child vaudevillian who became known for his performances on Broadway and Las Vegas Nevada.

"Handicap?" he asked. Primarily a dancer and singer he was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities. "Talk about handicap — I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

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