Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr.was an American entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, he was also an actor of stage and screen, comedian, musician, and impressionist, noted for his impersonations of actors, musicians and other celebrities. At the age of three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father and Will Mastin as the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis returned to the trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro'safter...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth8 December 1925
CityNew York City, NY
My home has always been show business.
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.
With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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.
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.