American - Entertainer | December 8, 1925 - May 16, 1990
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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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.
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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.
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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My home has always been show business.
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There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
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