Elvis Presley Quotes

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

Then came Act II, you seemed to change and acted strange, and why I'll never know.

Don't step on my blue suede shoes.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.

If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

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

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

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

We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

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

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?

The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

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.

Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Live each day, as if it we're your last. It's written in the stars, your destiny is cast.

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair.

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.

I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

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.

We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

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.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

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 had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

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.

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.