Elvis Presley quotes

“The army teaches boys to think like men.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.”

— Elvis Presley

“When I get married, it'll be no secret.”

— Elvis Presley

“I don't do any vulgar movements.”

— Elvis Presley

“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.”

— Elvis Presley

“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.”

— Elvis Presley

“I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“I like entertaining people. I really miss it.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“I was an overnight sensation.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“I'll stay in Memphis.”

— Elvis Presley

“I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.”

— Elvis Presley

“My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.”

— Elvis Presley

“They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“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.”

— Elvis Presley

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

— Elvis Presley

“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.”

— Elvis Presley

“I miss my singing career very much.”

— Elvis Presley

“I'm no hillbilly singer.”

— Elvis Presley