Sammy Davis, Jr.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

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

I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

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

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.

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

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

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

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

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.

I don't have many easy songs.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

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