top of page

"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Talent quotes

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
Explore more quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.


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


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


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


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


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


"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."
bottom of page