Sammy davis

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

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

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

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

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

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

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.