Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

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

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

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.

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

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

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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.

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

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

My home has always been show business.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

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

I don't have many easy songs.

You don't swing where you sleep.

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

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

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

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

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.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.