To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

You don’t swing where you sleep.

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