Famous quotes by Entertainers

"I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I don't have many easy songs"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"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"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"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., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"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., Entertainer

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

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"My home has always been show business"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"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., Entertainer

"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"If you want to get known as a singer, you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world, I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"This is my present, you know. My present from Mother"

Gypsy Rose Lee, Entertainer

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