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

Quote by Sammy Davis Jr

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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned...

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned...

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

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

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

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

I don't have many easy songs.

I don't have many easy songs.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the...

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the...

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

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

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

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

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something...

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something...

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being,...

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being,...

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on...

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on...

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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.

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.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the...

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the...

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another...

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another...

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...

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

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

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

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...