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When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.
I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.
From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
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.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.
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 colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
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.
When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
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.
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.
When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.