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

Quote by Sammy Davis Jr

Topics: Sammy Davis Jr Quotes

My home has always been show business.

My home has always been show business.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line...

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line...

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three...

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three...

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

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

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was...

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was...

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could...

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could...

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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

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

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making...

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making...

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided...

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided...

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to...

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to...

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

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

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn...

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn...

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in...

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in...

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child...

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child...

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

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

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

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

You don't swing where you sleep.

You don't swing where you sleep.

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were...

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were...

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call...

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call...