Quotes By Elvis Presley

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'll stay in Memphis.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

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.

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

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

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I'm no hillbilly singer.