Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

Getting so much attention all at once, with so many people who want something from you or want to talk to you... for someone who is overly sensitive to other people's needs, that can be difficult.

Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.

My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.

... too emotionally strung out.

Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world - I'm just an emotional person in general.

When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn't know what to do. I don't think you're ever prepared for this.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

I've been compared to my dad my whole life. That pressure I've learned to deal with.

I guess I like the attention... well, I mean, I don't mind it. Sometimes it can be a lot. I deal with it, though.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

I guess I don't really let the stress of my family weigh on my career, weigh on my options anymore, which I think we all need freedom from.

I've always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings - like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I'm not good enough to make it, or I don't have what it takes.

For a long time - when we first started getting a much higher level of attention - I really struggled with feeling like I was letting people down. Because when you do a show, there are, like, a hundred fans waiting to see you afterwards, and sometimes you can't see them.

Having to deal with, like, family problems in front of the world is very difficult.

I couldn't deal with the fame, the pressure and everything else.

I can never bring myself to watch Mahesh's films. It's way too stressful for me. All his family members are eager to attend and enjoy the previews of his films like normal people. But I sit at home chewing my nails, praying, wondering if this one will be as big as the previous one, and so on.