I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

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.