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Montag, 8. Dezember 2014

Happy Birthday 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.

Ein Star ist ein Mensch, der überall zu Hause ist, nur nicht bei sich selbst.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow men.

Verärgere niemals das Publikum, sonst ist es aus mit dir. 

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
 
Die Autohersteller lernen nichts dazu. Die neuen Modelle haben noch immer denselben Scheibenwischer, hinter dem beim Parken die Strafzettel hängen.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

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

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

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

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

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.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

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.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

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.

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

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

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

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

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

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

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