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" I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around. "

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

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

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" I was an overnight sensation. "

" Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. "

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

" 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've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that. "

" I'll stay in Memphis. "

" Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me. "

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

" The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year. "

" 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. "

" Those movies sure got me into a rut. "

" I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. "

" I'm no hillbilly singer. "

" I never expected to be anybody important. "

" I like entertaining people. I really miss it. "

" Man, I really like Vegas. "

" I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax. "

" 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. "

" Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning. "

" 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. "

" The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way. "

" 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. "