Elvis Presley Quotes

Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.

People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Folks always look good in their coffins.

On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one.

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

Your kisses lift me higher...like the sweet song of a choir. You light my morning sky, with burning love.

Where could I go but to the Lord?

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

Love is a thing you never can share.

Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two.

NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll!

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

Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

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

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

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

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

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

I don't mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn't loved in his day.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.