Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
--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.
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
I'm a colored, one-eyed Jew- do I need anything else? (In response to the question, 'What's your handicap?').
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
--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.
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
The day they stop making fun of you is the day they don't give a damn about you.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
The kind of sickness I wish Time had written about, is that school teachers in Oklahoma get a top annual salary of $4000, while Sammy Davis, Jr. gets $10,000 a week in Vegas.
--Lenny Bruce
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
You don't swing where you sleep.
--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.
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