73 Quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

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

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

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

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

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.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

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

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