Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

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A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch — unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Question: What is your handicap?
Answer: I'm a colored, one-eyed Jew—do I need anything else?

Sammy Davis Jr.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Tm an outcast. Obviously I'm not white, but now it's gotten so the colored people don't want me either. It's like I'm the man without a country.

Sammy Davis Jr.

I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

Sammy Davis Jr.

It was a strange time, the sixties, a strange feeling suddenly being "black." Yet overnight thirty million "colored people" and "Negroes" had become "blacks." It was difficult to think of myself as "black."... Nobody ever got called "Negro bastard" or "colored motherfucker." It was always "black" and the word was nasty and hard.

Sammy Davis Jr.

I know I'm dreadfully ugly, one of the ugliest men you could meet, but ugliness, like beauty, is something you must learn how to use.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr.

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Born: December 8, 1925

Died: May 16, 1990 (aged 64)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Ocean's 11 (1960)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Anna Lucasta (1958)
A Man Called Adam (1966)
Sergeants 3 (1962)

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