 After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. |
| My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body. |
| The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. |
| People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. |
| It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. |
| Man, I really like Vegas. |
| I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. |
| They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure. |
| I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. |
| Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head. |
| Those movies sure got me into a rut. |
| I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. |
| I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. |
| 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. |
| Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. |
| A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. |
| When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. |
| 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've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax. |
| I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. |
