Sammy Davis Jr.

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.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

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.

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.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My home has always been show business.

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