64 Quotes by Sammy Davis Jr.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don’t have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.