Quotes By Elvis Presley

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

Too much TV hurts movies.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I'll stay in Memphis.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Man, I really like Vegas.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.