Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

Imitations only better the original.

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

You don’t swing where you sleep.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.